Battles and Leaders of the Civil War
The Politics of the Civil War
The Union Wins the Civil War
The Politics of Reconstruction
Life During Reconstruction
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Who was the Civil War between?
Union (North) and Confederacy (South)
100
What was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history? This battle was won by the Union but led to the firing of Union General George McClellan because he did not pursue the Confederates as the Confederates retreated.
The Battle of Antietam
100
Who were the Northern Democrats who advocated making peace with the South during the Civil War?
Copperheads
100
According to “Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address” what did Lincoln want after the Civil War was over?
A fair and generous peace with the Confederates
100
What did the Republicans do to Andrew Johnson because Johnson was not enforcing Reconstruction legislation?
Impeached but not removed from office
200
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
200
What term means freeing of slaves?
Emancipation
200
What is the drafting of citizens for military service that occurred during the Civil War?
Conscription
200
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, ending most of the fighting of the Civil War?
Appomattox Court House
200
What is the difference between the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution?
13th-Abolished Slavery 14th-Equal protection of law regardless of race 15th-Right to vote for African Americans
300
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
300
What was the major effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Great Britain and France stayed neutral
300
What was the major effect of the formation, fighting, and death of the soldiers Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment?
More African Americans were able to fight in the military
300
What happened to President Lincoln while he was watching a play at Ford’s Theatre?
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
300
What is a scalawag? What is a carpetbagger?
Scalawag-White southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War Carpetbagger-Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War
400
Who was the famous general that was one of the reasons the Union finally started winning the war?
Ulysses S. Grant
400
Which slaves did the Emancipation Proclamation free?
Only the slaves in the Confederacy
400
What 3-day battle was the turning point of the Civil War because the Confederacy would never be able to recover the number of soldiers who died there?
The Battle of Gettysburg
400
What was the period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union (1865-1877)?
Reconstruction
400
What were the two types of alternative farming that replaced the plantation system and were almost as bad as slavery because farmers remained in debt? What is the difference between these two types of farming?
Sharecropping and tenant farming
500
Who was the famous general of the Confederate military?
Robert E. Lee
500
What is a court order requiring authorities to bring a prisoner before the court so that the court can determine whether the prisoner is being held legally? This was suspended in both the North and the South during the Civil War.
Habeas corpus
500
What famous speech did Abraham Lincoln give at the dedication of a cemetery honoring the many soldiers that died in the 3-day battle that occurred there? According to this speech, why did Lincoln think that the Union needed to be preserved?
The Gettysburg Address-honor the dead, free the slaves, protect democracy
500
What was the major difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction?
Presidential was lenient and Congressional was more radical by giving African Americans more rights and giving Confederates stricter punishments
500
What was the secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in the Southern states after the Civil War?
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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