People/Groups
I was the North's best general and a big fan of whiskey.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Law in the Constitution that allowed black men to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The South's best general and a brilliant strategist.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Separating people based on race.
What is Segregation?
Confederate general who stood like a 'stonewall' against Union soldiers.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
A campaign to take the Mississippi River and split the South in two.
What is the Vicksburg Campaign?
Law in the Constitution that slavery is banned.
What is the 13th Amendment?
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Northerners who came to the South to start businesses.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
Assassinated Abraham Lincoln during a comedy play.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
The bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Laws preventing blacks from voting, owning guns, or having positions of power.
What are the Black Codes?
People who tried to stop African Americans from having equal rights in the South.
Who were Southern Democrats?
White Southerners who supported the North.
Who were Scalawags?
Who were Radical Republicans?
This battle was won by Union General Ulysses S. Grant. It is also where he started his campaign to take the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
Passed during the Reconstruction Era, it stated all freed slaves were equal.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Abraham Lincoln's Vice President. Did not work well with Congress.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Laws Southern Democrats created once they controlled the government.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
Group of white extremists who attacked and lynched African Americans.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
The first major battle of the Civil War. Confederates won, Union lost.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
Law in the Constitution stating all people born in the U.S. are legal citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Lincoln's first general of the Potomac. Very cautious and ran against Lincoln for presidential election.
Who is George McClellan?
Farming system that legally replaced slavery.
What is Sharecropping?