Battles
The Battle where the Union starves the South and winds the Mississippi.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
Another name for the North (advantage is technology)
What is the Union?
Treat African Americans equally underneath the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A government in which the people rule, a broad range of people shared in the power to govern themselves.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The great General of the South.
Who is Robert E Lee?
The first battle of the Civil War, and Lincoln wanted to resupply this Fort.
What is Fort Sumpter?
The Federal Government created this to help African Americans get back on their feet.
What is the Freedmans Bureau?
Laws in the south that were passed because of the 13th Amendment and discriminated against African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
The people exercise their power by voting.
What is Republicanism?
The president who wanted to go easy on the South.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Where the South officially ended the war.
What is the surrender at Appomattox Court House?
The economic practice that dominated the south after slavery and kept African Americans in debt.
What is sharecropping?
Amendment that freed the slaves.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A system of government in which the power is divided between a central government and smaller political units such as states.
What is Federalism?
The General of the North and later becomes President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Another name for the South ( advantage is they are fighting for their lifestyle)
What is the Confederacy?
Makes it legal for African American men to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The division of basic government roles into three branches.
What is Separation of powers?
His total war strategy brought the civil war to the doorsteps of civilians.
Who is General Sherman?
The battle that has the bloodiest day in American History.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The era after the Civil War where the United States attempted to rebuild the physical and emotional wounds caused by the war.
What is Reconstruction?
The Document that freed slaves in the Confederate States during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Each branch of government can exercise checks, or controls over the other branches.
What is Checks and Balances?
Another General of the South.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?