Civil War
This was the opening confrontation of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
We were the presidents of the United States of American and the Confederate States of America
Who are Abraham Lincoln(USA) and Jefferson Davis (CSA)?
The Reconstruction Period is.
The period after the Civil War where the south was being rebuilt
The 2 cities in the South that was left in ruins after the Civil War.
What is Atlanta and Richmond?
The Emancipation Proclamation led to the enlistment of this group of people.
What are African Americans?
This documented freed all the slaves in the rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
I urged Abraham Lincoln to enlist the help of African Americans to fight in the Union Army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
I served as president during most of the Reconstruction period.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
By the 20th century, this country emerges as a strong economic power.
What is the United States?
This group of people found new jobs in agriculture, nursing, and war industries.
This document said that America was one nation and not a collection of sovereign states. The government was ruled by a government "of the people" and all men are "created equal".
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Though I opposed the succession of the states, I was the general for the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
I became President after Lincoln was Assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The completion of this intensified the mass migration of settlers into the states.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This amendment stated states were prohibited from denying equal rights under the law to any American.
What is the 14th Amendment?
After this event took place, many states decided to seceded from the Union and form their own country.
I was the military commander for the Union Army and won many victories over the South after several union commanders before me failed.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
It was the amendment that abolished Slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
This was the group of people that believed in harshly punishing the South after the War.
I am an abolitionist and wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This is where General Lee surrenders to Grant and signaled the end of the Civil War.
What is Appomattox?
Even though we were technically enemies, we had a lot of respect for each other.
It was a deal where military occupation ended in the South but the Southern democrats had to give electoral college votes to Northern Republicans.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Who are the Southerns?
This was an era that promoted racial segregation.
What is the Jim Crow Era?