People of the Civil War
This Confederate leader declined the opportunity to command Union forces. He was also known as a great strategist.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Abraham Lincoln freed all of the enslaved people in the Confederacy with this (but not those in the border states).
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This person assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This U.S. President tried to veto the Civil Rights Bill because he thought that protecting the rights of African Americans was discrimination against white people.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Grandfather clauses, literacy tests, and poll taxes were all measures designed to hinder black people from exercising this constitutional right
What is voting?
This man was the president of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War during which people spectated and had picnics.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Aside from being a politician, Abraham Lincoln also held this profession.
What is a lawyer?
Southern states used these to limit the rights of African Americans
What are Black Codes?
This modern social movement attempts to fix some issues that were never fixed during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement.
What is The Black Lives Matter movement?
This Union General practiced total war in his campaign in the south.
Who is General Sherman? (Full name: William Tecumseh Sherman)
In this famous two minute speech, Abraham Lincoln addressed the American people and referenced the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This is where Abraham Lincoln was assasinated
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The changes made during the Reconstruction Era trickled down to this movement later in history that is sometimes referred to as the second Reconstruction.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
This woman was a nurse during the war and went on the found The American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
This is where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
Where is Appomattox Court House, Virginia?
This man had a famous series of debates with Lincoln, which led to Lincoln to become a better known politician.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This organization sent Northerners to the South to help provide an education, food, clothing, and medical and legal aid to African Americans.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This holiday celebrates when the last enslaved African Americans found out that they were free.
What is Juneteenth?
This famous African American man issued a call to African Americans urging them to join the Union army.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This battle took place on the deadliest day of the Civil War. General George McClellan was leading the Union forces.
What is the battle of Antietam?
This is the state where Abraham Lincoln was born
Kentucky
This amendment gave all men the right to vote, no matter the color of their skin.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This U.S. President ended the Reconstruction era with his election and the Bargain of 1877
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?