Civil War Leaders
He served as the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
System of agriculture in which tenants labored for a landlord in return for a share or percentage of the total crops produced
What is sharecropping?
The North heavily relied on this river to divide the South into two parts.
What is the Mississippi River?
This was the first official battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Manassas/Bull Run?
This violent terrorist organization was devoted to white supremacy.
What is the KKK?
He was the leader of the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment freed all enslaved people in the U.S.
What is the 13th amendment?
This was the South's strategy during the war.
Hold off invading armies, Cotton diplomacy
This battle was the largest of the Civil War and became the turning point for the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These are states where slavery was legal, but that did not secede
What are border states?
This Union army leader eventually became the 18th U.S. president.
Who is Ulysses Grant?
These were laws put into place to prevent African Americans in the South from gaining rights after slavery.
What are Black Codes?
This was the name of the Northern strategy during the Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This is the place where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865.
What the Appomattox Court House?
This was an unwritten agreement to settle the disputed election of 1876.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This man (the second leader of the Union army) was nicknamed “the Creeper” because he was so hesitant to attack.
Who is George McClellan?
This group of northerners opposed Lincoln’s Ten Percent plan, claiming that it was too lenient.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
The Confederacy tried to get support from these two countries to help fight.
What are England and France?
This Union general captured Atlanta before marching to Savannah while burning the South.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This holiday is an annual celebration of "Jubilee Day" on June 19.
What is Juneteenth?
This was the first leader of the Union army.
Who is Irwin McDowell?
White Southerners who became Republicans and supported Reconstruction
What are scalawags?
This side relied on its larger population, larger industry, and railroad network.
What is the Union?
This was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War with about 22,000 dead and wounded.
What is the Battle of Antietam Creek?
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?