People
Who was the General of the Confederate Army?
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
What battle marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Name the law that stated that slaves who escaped slavery had to be returned to slavery
Fugitive Slave law
Who was a nurse during the Civil War and founded the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
What topic caused the Civil War?
Slavery
Who was the 18th President of the United States and the lead general of the Union during the Civil War?
Ulysses S Grant
Which battle was the first clash of naval warships?
Describe the 13th Amendment
Declared that slavery would no longer be allowed to exist in the United States
Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin about slavery?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who murdered Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Who took over as president after Lincoln was killed?
Andrew Johnson
What town did General Sherman capture in Georgia?
Atlanta
What year did Lincoln give the Gettysburg Address?
1863
Which amendment gave all men the right to vote, no matter what their skin color was or if they had been slaves
15th
Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender?
Appomattox Court House
Who was the commander of the Confederate Army of Virginia?
Robert E. Lee
Which battle lasted 3 days in Pennsylvania?
Battle of Gettysburg
Name the set of laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans and made segregation legal
Jim Crow Laws
define abolitionist
people who joined the movement to abolish, or end slavery
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves
popular sovereignty
Who led the south during the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
What is total war?
a war strategy to destroy an enemy's resources
What was the 14th Amendment?
Declared that states could not limit the rights of the citizens
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Congress created the Freedman’s Bureau, which gave food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites.
when poor farmers used a landowner's fields & gave the owner a share of the crops
sharecropping