Famous Civil War People
She was a nurse who tended to sick and dying soldiers and established the American Red Cross.
Possible Answers: Martha Washington, Harriet Tubman, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Who is Clara Barton
This 3-day battle fought in Pennsylvania became an important turning point in the war for the Union Army.
Possible answers: Vicksburg, Fort Sumter, Antietam, Gettysburg
What is Gettysburg?
What is true?
Lincoln's ____% Plan offered Southern states to return to the country if this same percentage of people in the state signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government.
What is 10%?
This U.S. Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery in American forever.
What is the 13th Amendment?
President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
After the battle of Vicksburg, the Union gained control of this river.
Possible Answers: Mississippi, Colorado, Rio Grande, Hudson
What is the Mississippi River?
The __________ system was crucial to getting much needed troops, supplies and food to the battlefields.
What was the railroad system?
True or False: Tim Crow laws were created in the South to restrict the new freedoms of African Americans.
The 15th Amendment guaranteed ________ rights to all freed African American males after the Civil War.
What is voting?
The _____________ was an organized group of white supremacists who use violence and fear to keep freed blacks from exercising their freedoms.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed an executive order called the _______ ___________ that freed the slaves from the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Note: This E.P. was hard to enforce until the 13th Amendment was added to the US Constitution.
After the Civil War, this American President was the first to be impeached (removed from office).
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The ___________ Act offered American settlers cheap land in the Great Plains territories.
He was a former slave who wrote a book and made public speeches to support the Abolitionist Movement.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
South Carolina seceded from the Union after this first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Seriously wounded soldiers would have an arm or leg __________ that could not be healed.
What is amputated (amputation)?
The Freedmen's _______ gave support to newly freed slaves who needed to find work and living arrangements.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
These two Civil War generals met at Appomattox Court House, Virginia to sign and accept the terms of a Confederate surrender that ended the war.
Who were Ulysses S Grant & Robert E Lee?
Harriet Tubman used the _______ _________ system to help escaped slaves travel safely to the North.
What was the Underground Railroad?
At the First Battle of ______ ______, spectators ate a picnic lunch as they watched the fighting, indicating that they didn't think the war would last long.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
Plessy vs. ____________ was a US Supreme Court case that legalized segregation laws public places.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?
The ______ _______ were laws made to restrict the new freedoms of freed slaves in the South.
What were the Black Codes?
This communication system allowed commanding officers to obtain real-time updates about strategies and the movement of enemy troops.
What was the telegraph?