Civil War Battles
This battle signaled the turning point of the American Civil War when General Lee was badly defeated in his attempt to invade the North in 1863.
Gettysburg
This constitutional amendment finally abolished slavery in the United States when it was ratified in 1865.
13th
This amendment extended the rights of citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States.
14th
President Lincoln gave his "Gettysburg Address" consecrating this symbol and landmark of sacrifice in November, 1963.
Gettysburg National Cemetery
This Mississippi slave-owner and politician became the first president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
Petersburg
The "Day of Jubilee" meant what to the enslaved people of the South during the American Civil War?
The day in which an enslaved person was emancipated from slavery.
This Virginia actor was the head conspirator and assassin who shot Lincoln at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.
John Wilkes Booth
Lee finally surrendered to Grant in this town West of Richmond in 1865.
Appomattox Courthouse
In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifices of the Union soldiers would ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"?
The Gettysburg Address
In 1864, General William T. Sherman moved his Army of Tennessee into this state as part of his "March to the Sea" to end the war.
Georgia
What is one of the main reasons contributing to Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection?
This battle in 1864 was the last major Confederate victory of the war.
Cold Harbor
In 1864, this Northern democrat ran against Lincoln with the promise that he would bring an end to the war.
George McClellan