Battles
- Bloodiest single day of the war.
- 1st major battle on U.S. soil
What is Antietam?
Made slavery illegal
What is the 13th amendment?
Commanding general of the Confederate army
Who is Robert E Lee?
Speech given by Lincoln that described the U.S. as a nation "conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal", and represented the Civil War as a test that would determine whether such a nation could endure.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The main causes of the Civil War
What are sectionalism, slavery and states' rights?
Beginning of the Civil War
What is Ft Sumter?
Gave black men the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
- First Republican President
- 16th President
- President of the Union during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Statement by Lincoln granting freedom to all slaves living in the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Advantages of the North during the Civil War (list 2)
- more people
- more factories
- more money
- more infrastructure (roads, railroads, canals, etc)
- Gave the Union control of the Mississippi River
- Allowed the Union to split the Confederacy in half
What is Vicksburg?
Gave citizenship to all persons born in the United States
What is the 14th amendment?
- defeated the Confederate Army at Vicksburg
- became Commander-in-Chief of the Union Army
Who is U.S. Grant?
- Economic system in the South following the Civil War.
- Resulted from landowners needing workers and former slaves needing money/jobs
What is Sharecropping?
The goal of secret societies, like the KKK, when using violence and intimidation against blacks.
What is to stop African-Americans from gaining their civil rights
- Lee suffered heavy casualties
- No further advances into the North
- Turning Point of the Civil War
What is Gettysburg?
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ..."
What is the 1st amendment?
- destroyed the South on his "March to the Sea"
- destroyed Southern railroads, making it difficult for the South to resupply their troops
Who is William T. Sherman?
a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction
What is a carpetbagger?
Lincoln's goal for America when he was elected President
What is to keep the Union together
Robert E Lee surrenders to U.S. Grant
What is Appomattox?
"...guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury ..."
What is the 6th amendment?
- Lincoln's Vice-President
- became 17th President of the U.S.
- Democrat from Tennessee
Who is Andrew Johnson?
a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit.
What is a scalawag?
Two ways the Southern economy was impacted by the Civil War
- Farm production decreased
- Destruction of plantations, farms and homes
- Decrease in the cotton trade
- Infrastructure (roads, railroads) was destroyed