Battles
Reconstruction
People
Cause and Effect
Vocab
100
The siege at this Confederate city was long and complicated, but Grant's risky plan was successful, and the Union gained control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg
100
These are the laws written in Reconstruction that governed the lives and behavior of specifically freedman and free people of color.
What are Black Codes?
100
This gentleman was the Union general in charge of all troops for most of the Civil War.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
100
Because the general in charge at Vicksburg ordered all citizens and military personnel inside the walls of the city, the Union was able to successfully use this military strategy, which cut off the city from supplies.
What is a siege?
100
This is the term given to formerly enslaved people after the Civil War.
What is a freedman?
200
The Confederate attack on this location started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This terrorist organization was founded during Reconstruction. They are known for their activity to discourage and prevent the education of black individuals.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
200
This general was in charge of the Confederate forces for most of the war.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
200
Grant lost his supply depot at Holly Springs when Confederates took control, and these two people were almost kidnapped by the Confederate forces before fleeing just in time.
Who are Grant's wife and son?
200
Persons who are killed, wounded, or missing in battle are called this.
What are casualties?
300
This battle brought Grant into Mississippi and was one of the bloodiest battles in the War.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
300
The most important achieve of Reconstruction was the establishment of this statewide system.
What is the public education system?
300
This vice president took over after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, and he was later impeached over political charges.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
300
Because this statement only applied to slaves in areas in rebellion against the United States, its result was only to encourage abolitionists that Lincoln was anti-slavery. It did not have much real impact on enslaved people's freedom.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This is the insulting name given to white Southerners who voted Republican during Reconstruction.
What are scalawags?
400
This man was the Confederate who was tasked with defending Vicksburg at all costs.
Who was Pemberton?
400
These are the two phases of Reconstruction in Mississippi, characterized by who had control of the Reconstruction efforts and laws.
What are Presidential and Congressional?
400
This man was appointed to Jefferson Davis's empty Senate seat after the Civil War, making him the first Black man to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
400
This image shows freedmen voting after the Civil War. Because voting was public like this, Democrats were able to coerce citizens into voting for the Democratic party, resulting in this shift in political power in Mississippi.
What is the Revolution of 1875?
400
This is the term given to the strategy devised by Democrats leading up to and during the election of 1875 to gain control of the Mississippi Congress.
What is the Mississippi Plan?
500
This was a Union Civil War cavalry raid in which they destroyed railroad lines that connected Vicksburg with the eastern part of the Confederacy as a diversion tactic during the taking of Vicksburg.
What is Grierson's Raid?
500
This image demonstrates freedmen voting. The passage of this amendment to the Constitution was meant to protect citizens' right to vote regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
This man was appointed governor in Mississippi after the Civil War. He was a Republican, and eventually resigned after Democrats gained control of the Mississippi legislature and threatened impeachment.
Who was Adelbert Ames?
500
The Confederate loss in this very bloody Union-located battle (the Confederacy's first attempt at an offensive movement) was an indication that the Union would soon triumph.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
General Grant's army assembled a supply depot at Holly Springs and did this at Oxford in the fall of 1862.
What is bivouacking?