Civil War People
This president led the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South.
What is Reconstruction?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This city served as the capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
Who was the abolitionist who raided Harper's Ferry and was involved in Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown
This Confederate general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
his 1863 battle is often called the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This river was a major Union target to split the Confederacy.
What is the Mississippi River?
These ironclad ships fought each other in 1862.
What are the Monitor and the Merrimack (Virginia)?
This Union general accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This state was the site of the Gettysburg battlefield.
What is Pennsylvania?
This was the main economic system of the South before the Civil War.
What is plantation agriculture?
The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
This amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This battle was the bloodiest one day battle of the war.
What is the Battle of Antietam
This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This Southern state was devastated during Sherman’s March to the Sea.
What is Georgia?
This group secretly helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
These laws enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This is the place where Lee surrendered to Grant.
Appomattox, Virginia
This battle ended with Lee’s surrender in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This border state stayed in the Union and allowed slavery.
What is Missouri? (Also acceptable: Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware)
This Civil War law allowed men to avoid military service by paying $300.
What is the draft (Conscription Act)?