Battles
People
Events
Post-Civil War
Potpourri
100
The battle that began it all
What is Fort Sumter?
100
Lincoln's assassin
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
a famous speech made by Abraham Lincoln that begins, "Four score and seven years ago..."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
100
Working and living on land that belonged to someone else; this kept poor people in debt.
What is sharecropping?
100
This part of the country had large plantations (farms) and wanted to keep their slaves to farm the land.
What is the south?
200
The strategy to capture Atlanta and burn it down to take away the South's supplies and transportation
What is the Atlanta Campaign?
200
He was the 16th President of the US and was president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
the name of the document that Lincoln created to free slaves in the US
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
The rebuilding of the South after the war
What is Reconstruction?
200
This part of the country had factories and no slavery
What is the north?
300
the "turning point" to lead the North to victory; Lincoln gave a famous speech after this battle
What is Gettysburg?
300
President of the Confederate States after they succeeded from the Union
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
This amendment guaranteed African Americans could vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
300
Term given to opportunistic Northerners trying to profit from the South's rebuilding.
What are carpetbaggers?
300
White supremacy group founded in 1866
What is the Ku Klux Klan
400
Northern troops marched through Georgia, burning everything and destroying railroads
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
400
Main general for the North
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
400
this organization built schools and provided jobs to newly freed slaves
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
This gave African Americans citizenship in the US
What is the 14th Amendment?
400
this part of the country sustained the most damage during the war
What is the south?
500
Robert E Lee surrenders here to Ulysses Grant to end the war
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
Main general for the South
Who is Robert E Lee?
500
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
an important Confederate general who died from a wound sustained from friendly fire
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
500
This part of the country had a good economy because of the many factories there.
What is the north?
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