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Civil War Battles
Early Reconstruction
Radical Reconstruction
Vocab. and Misc. Mash-Up
100
He was the US president during the period of Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This battle, a northern victory, is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
100
The rebuilding of the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
100
He shot and killed President Lincoln, marking the first successful presidential assassination in US history.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
100
These were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States.
What were the Jim Crow laws?
200
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This battle marked the bloodiest single-day in US military history, resulting in 23,000 casualties.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
This amendment permanently ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
Amendment that guaranteed all African Americans the right to vote in local, state, and federal elections.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
This is the number of states that seceded (withdrew) from the Union during the Civil War.
What is 11? South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee
300
He was the Confederate general who surrendered to Grant the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Gen. Grant secured Union control of the Mississippi River with this northern victory.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
300
Type of tax created in the south to limit the ability of blacks to vote.
What is a Poll Tax?
300
This Amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
300
These were southern laws that limited the rights of African Americans.
What were the Black Codes?
400
He was Lincoln’s Vice President who became President upon his assassination.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
400
Occurred in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, this battle marked the official start of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
400
Document written by President Lincoln that freed all slaves in areas of resistance and rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Agricultural system meant to keep blacks in situations similar to slavery.
What is sharecropping?
400
Government agency responsible for administering reconstruction policies (e.g. food shelter, clothing, education, medicine) in southern governments.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
500
These are the first six words of President Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address".
What is "Four score and seven years ago"?
500
This is the place of Robert E. Lee's official surrender of his Southern forces to Gen. Grant and the Union army.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
500
A law that made all former slaves citizens.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
This group hides behind white robes spewing hatred towards African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
500
This is the number of deaths due to shooting and wounds during the Civil War?
What is about 600,000?
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