Battles
This battle began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
He was the President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is where Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865
What is Appomattox Court House?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This battle is considered the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
He served as President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This act allowed settlers in the territories to vote on slavery using popular sovereignty.
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
In this speech, Lincoln redefined the purpose of the war as preserving the Union and ending slavery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy.
What is Vicksburg?
This Union general accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Control of this river was important because it split the Confederacy in two.
What is the Mississippi River?
In this speech, Lincoln explained why the Union must be preserved at the start of his presidency.
What is Lincoln’s 1st Inaugural Address?
This period focused on rebuilding the South after the war.
What is Reconstruction?
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
This Confederate general surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This city served as the capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond?
This speech focused on healing and reconciliation near the end of the war.
What is Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural Address?
This organization was created to assist formerly enslaved people after the war.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War, also called First Manassas.
What is Bull Run (Manassas)?
This Supreme Court case increased sectional tension by ruling that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This city was the capital of the Union.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This speech outlined the Confederacy’s position at the start of the war.
What is Davis’s Inaugural Address?
Name one long-term economic or social impact of the Civil War.
Destruction of Southern economy; rise of sharecropping; expanded federal power; civil rights amendments.