People 1
Who was the creator of the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
Which woman was famous for founding the American Red cross after first being a battlefield nurse in the Civil War?
Clara Barton
What did the emancipation proclamation do?
Freed all slaves in the Confederacy
Why did Abraham Lincoln not like McClellan?
He was reluctant to fight
In the united states, the period of rebuilding after the civil war...
What does civil rights mean?
Reconstruction
The rights that all are supposed to have according to the constitution and it's ammendments
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This Union General's strategy was to fight and wear down the enemy...
Ulysses S Grant
In your own words tell me what the Missouri Compromise did
It created a line of free (north) states and slave states to the south.
In the Gettysburg Address who honored the fallen soldiers at Gettysburg?
Abraham lincoln
A secret society that fought violently against equal rights for African American people
An Abolitionist was....
Ku Klux Klan
A person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s
What was the name of an escaped slave who became an abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
Which General on the Confederate side was quick to attack and move troops?
Stonewall Jackson
Slaves were property, Congress could not take away a person's right to their property by passing a law... What Supreme court case was this?
What was General Sherman Famous for?
Teaching 5th grade! jk
His march to the sea
The states that made up the United states of America; during the Civil War the states that supported the U.S. government.
emancipation means...
Union
the act of setting someone or something free
Who's victory at Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi river?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who planned and led the attack on the U.S. Government arsenal at Harper's Ferry with the hope of arming slaves?
John Brown
Which strategy did the Union use to keep Confederates from selling cotton and buying things they needed?
Naval Blockade
What was the organization called that assisted former slaves?
Freedmen's Bureau
secede means...
To accuse a government official of doing something wrong or improper.
to formally withdraw membership
Impeach
The name of the person who killed Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Who was elected to be the first president of the confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What was the name of the battle that officially started the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Are all these statements True for Congressional Reconstruction?
It threw out state governments that had passed Black codes
It refused to allow Confederate leaders back into Congress
It ratified amendments to the constitution only to secure the right to a fair trial for black southerners
False
It ratified amendments to the constitution to secure the right to vote and to a fair trial for black southerners
An official change or addition to the Constitution is called a(n)
Underground railroad is...
Constitutional Amendment
A secret organization that helped slaves escape to freedom.