Battles
This battle, though a draw allowed Confederate forces to cease a Union advance in 1862.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This woman, known as "Moses", led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom and served as a Union spy.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This 1863 document allowed free African Americans to enlist in the Army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the USS Monitor?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
A confederate General who later acted as the Commissioner of Railroads under Grover Cleveland.
Who is Joseph E. Johnston?
What are Copperheads?
These new bullets increased rifle accuracy and lethality during the Civil War.
What are Minie balls?
What is 10 percent?
This 1863 battle was fought for a key Confederate railroad hub.
What is the Battle of Chattanooga?
This Union general's name became a term that refers to the policy of designating enslaved people who escaped into Union lines as "contraband of war".
Who is Benjamin Butler?
Lincoln suspended this constitutional right to detain Confederate sympathizers.
What is habeas corpus?
This technology allowed generals to communicate over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
This US President followed Lincoln, and is widely considered to be one of the worst presidents.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Union forces suffered high causalities at this assault on Marye's Haights in this 1862 battle?
What is the Battle of Fredericksburg?
The Confederacy Vice President.
Who is Alexander H. Stephens?
This group formed to help formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the South during Reconstruction.
The first battlefield to be photographed extensively.
What is Antietam?
These laws were passed in Southern states to restrict of the newly freed African Americans.
What are Jim Crow laws?
Fought in Missouri, one of the largest battles west of the Mississippi.
What is the Battle of Wilson's Creek?
A Black Union soldier who was awarded a Medal of Honor for his bravery at the Battle of Fort Wagner.
Who is William Carney?
This code name was used for the Union's plan to strangle the Southern economy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Union General Thaddeus Lowe led this high-flying innovation.
What are war balloons?
The first African American elected to the U.S Senate during Reconstruction.
Who is Hiram Revels?