Causes
Slavery
Leaders
Battles
War Geography
100

Time of rebuilding the United States after the Civil War

Reconstruction

100
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
100
Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
100
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
100
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
200

Amendment that guaranteed all male citizens the right to vote

15th Amendment

200

What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

200

Who was the major Union General and who was the major Confederate General?

Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee

200
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
200

Grant's plan to end the war

Total War

300

Amendment that freed all slaves in the United States

13th Amendment

300

Amendment that gave citizenship to all people born in the United States or who have become citizens of the United States.

Fourteenth Amendment

300

Northerners who moved to the south after the war and took advantage of people

Carpetbaggers

300
Who led the march to the sea, destroying Atlanta?
William T. Sherman
300
Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North)
400

Reason the south fought the Civil War

Defend their homes

400

Female abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor

Harriet Tubman

400

Emancipation Proclamation

Decree that freed the slaves in the south in 1863.

400
Which battle did Grant win to take control of the Mississippi River?
Battle of Vicksburg
400
What were some effects of the war on the South?
Cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed. The results of the fighting were devastating.
500

Reason the North fought the Civil War

Restore the Union

500
The name of the path that escaping slaves used.
The Underground Railroad
500
How did Lincoln die?
He was assassinated while watching a play with his wife.
500

Where did the Confederacy surrender?

Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia

500

Book and author that brought attention to the issue of slavery.

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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