Reconstruction
This amendment ended slavery in the US
What is the 13th Amendment?
Lee surrendered to Grant in this small Virginia town
What is Appamattox Courthouse?
According to the mythology of the Lost Cause, the Civil War was about this idea.
What are states' rights?
Who is Sherman?
He ran for president against Lincoln in 1860
Who is Breckinridge, Bell or Douglas?
This man was impeached but not removed from office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Lincoln was shot here
What is Ford's Theater?
This organization was largely responsible for getting the Lost Cause into textbooks
What is the Daughters of the Confederacy?
He ran for president against Lincoln in 1864
Who is McClellan?
These two ships engaged in the first battle of "ironclad" warships
What are the Monitor and the Merrimac?
This amendment granted all men over a certain age the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This man was almost killed on the same night as the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Who is William Seward?
This man became the patron saint of the Lost Cause
Who is Robert E. Lee?
His division was devastated after their charge up Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg
Who is George Pickett?
This was the play that Lincoln was watching when he was shot
What is "Our American Cousin?"
These acts were created to help stamp out the KKK.
What are the Force Acts?
Booth shouted after shooting Abraham Lincoln
What is "sic semper tyrannus?"
According to Lost Cause mythology, the Union won the Civil War due to these factors
What are superior numbers (including foreign mercenaries), and the greater resources of the North?
This general was defeated at Chancellorsville by Robert E. Lee
This French captain invented the bullet that most soldiers on both sides of the war were using by its end.
Who is Minie?
This man was the leader of the Radical Republicans
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
This man was the only person executed for war crimes after the Civil War
Who was Henry Wirtz - commandant of Andersonville?
According to Lost Cause mythology, the vast majority of these people stayed loyal during the war
Who are enslaved people?
This Confederate general is considered the founder of the KKK
Who is Nathan Bedford Forrest?
This man was the Secretary of the Treasury for the United States at the start of the war
Who is Salmon P. Chase?