Famous Figures
This Union general managed to win the Presidency in a landslide.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This activity was the first thing many freedmen did with their freedom.
What is travel?
This organization was created to attack successful African Americans.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan? (or KKK)
This Amendment outlawed slavery in the entirety of America.
What was the 13th Amendment?
This was the process of readmitting the South to the Union.
What was Reconstruction?
This Southern sympathizer assassinated President Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
What was the Contract System?
General Lee tried to end the Civil War by obtaining a major victory at this battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Following the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln gave this speech, now regarded as one of the greatest speeches in history.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
These extreme politicians wanted to tear apart the South in order to rebuild it.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
The Union General that tore a huge path of destruction through the South.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
Many former slaves attended these institutions to recieve an education.
What are freedman schools?
General Grant completed the final part of the Anaconda Plan by capturing this city.
What is Vicksburg? (Or Siege of Vicksburg)
This Amendment granted citizenship to anyone born in America.
What was the 14th Amendment?
Grant's administration was mired in controversy due to his appointed workers being this.
What is corrupt?
This President succeeded Lincoln in office, and is widely agreed to have mishandled Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This system saw white landowners take renting land to freedmen, and then taking their crops as payment.
What was Sharecropping?
President Andrew Johnson was the first President to go through what criminal process?
What is Impeachment?
This Amendment granted voting rights to all men, regardless of race.
What was the 15th Amendment?
This 1873 event resulted in a massive economic depression.
What was the Panic of 1873?
The Union General with amazing facial hair, and terrible strategic planning.
Who was Ambrose Burnside?
Many racist groups performed these extrajudicial killings on freedmen.
What is lynching?
General Lee signed the Confederacy's surrender at this Virginia town.
What is Appomattox?
Southern politicians passed these laws to take away rights of African Americans.
What were Black Codes?
The election of 1876 was brutal, but resulted in this political party keeping the presidency.
Who are the Republicans?