Civil War Battles
It was the bloodiest single day battle in American History.
What is the battle of Antietam?
This Vice President took over after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The issuing of this document encouraged Black people to fight for the Union to achieve their freedom.
What is the Emmancipation Proclamation?
Term for southern whites who supported southern Reconstruction.
What are scalawags?
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
This general was the first to be given command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861.
What is General McClellan?
This Confederate General surrendered at the Appomattox Courthouse.
Who is General Robert E Lee?
This Amendment prohibited all forms of slavery - except for those who were found guilty in a court of law.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Term for northerners who moved South to assist with Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers?
This Amendment gave citizenship - and all of its rights - to African Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This strategy effectively stifled Southern resources and split the south in two - east & west - divided by the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This Union General later became President of the United States.
Who is Grant?
This plan for Reconstruction took a more forgiving approach.
What is the Presidential Reconstruction Plan?
Federal agency established by Congress at the end of the war to assist formerly enslaved African Americans in transitioning to freedom
What is the Freedmens Bureau?
This act, passed in 1867, divided the South into 5 military districts.
What is the Reconstruction Act?
This is where the Civil War began on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
This Union General wrote special field orders describing what was allowed in the "scorched-earth" policy and his "March to the Sea."
Who is General Sherman?
These are the Reconstruction Presidents (there are 3).
Who are Lincoln, Johnson, & Grant?
The Civil War events in the urban North that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare
What are the Draft Riots in NYC?
After the end of slavery, this form of labor became widespread in the South.
What is sharecropping?
On April 6-7, 1862 - with over 23,000 casualties - this was the deadliest battle in Civil War History - up until that time.
What is the battle of Shiloh?
This Union soldier wrote about his experiences at the Battle of Shiloh and later went on to become a well-known short story writer.
Who is Ambrose Bierce?
These laws repressed suffrage, allowed for segregation, and eliminated outlets for social mobility.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This was a political group established in the American South in the 1870s. Their goal was to "redeem" the South by removing Republicans from power and restoring white supremacy.
What are the Redeemer Governments?
This person becomes the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?