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The 16th president of the United States who preserved the Union during the U.S. Civil War and brought about the emancipation of slaves.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Marked the official beginning of the American Civil War.
What is Attack on Fort Sumter?
As of January 1st, 1863, it was declared that all persons held as slaves within the rebellious states “are and henceforward shall be free”
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The presence of army troops in this town was the noticeable start to the Civil War.
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
This Union devoted man was sworn into office only eight days after the end of the Civil War due to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Major African American abolitionist, reformer and writer who wrote an autobiography. He was famous before and after the Civil War as a writer and orator for abolition.
Who was Frederick Douglass
George B. McClellan and Robert E. Lee led this battle from June 25th to July 1st, 1862.
What is Seven Days Battle?
The first national draft system required registration by every male citizen and immigrant who had applied for citizenship between the ages of 20 and 45.
What is the Conscription act of 1864?
The invention that shaped the cotton industry and increased cotton production that resulted in the demand for more slaves.
What is the cotton gin?
What two amendments were passed after the Civil War? One pertains to American Citizenship and protection while the other pertains to voting rights.
What is the 14th and 15th amendment?
The Supreme Union General who helped in the battlefield defeat of the Confederacy, who later on became the 18th president of the United States.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This victory forced the confederates back into Georgia and ended the siege of the railroad junction.
What is the battle of Chattanooga?
Lincoln won the election over opponent George C McClellan, who wanted to end the war.
What was the results of the 1864 Election
Lincoln won the North and his opponent won the South.
What is the result of the 1860 election?
This violent extremist group was founded during the aftermath of the Civil War in which they targeted newly freed black populations and Republican politicians in the Reconstruction governments of the former Confederacy.
What is the Ku Klux Klan? (KKK)
The Confederate General who was in charge of the army of North Virginia. His surrender in Appomattox marked the end of the civil war.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Known as Robert E. Less’s last great victory.
What is the battle of Cold Harbor?
Created a national banking system, federal war bonds, and established a national currency.
What was the National Bank Act of 1863?
Supreme court decision to uphold slavery in the United States territories, denied the legality of black citizens in America and declared the Missouri compromise as unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
What laws did the southern states pass as a way to restrict the freedom of blacks and to get around the 13th amendment?
What is the “Black Codes?”
First president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, who also stood as the U.S. senator and the secretary of war.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Known as the second costliest battle of the Civil War.
What is the battle of Chickamauga?
The 1st African American to be seated in the Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This event led to the formation of the Confederates States of America.
What is the South Carolina Secession?
What did congress pass after the Civil War that was meant to govern how the former Confederate states would be readmitted to the Union?
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?