Freedom
Abraham Lincoln's primary goal in his first inaugural address
What was to preserve the Union?
Free blacks and enslaved people faced discrimination here
What is the North and the South?
General Lee surrendered to General Grant here
What was Appomattox Courthouse?
[DOUBLE JEOPARDY]
The number of military districts the South was divided into at the beginning of Reconstruction
What is 5?
The period leading to the Civil War
What was antebellum?
[DOUBLE JEOPARDY]
This era involved legislation enacted by the Radical Republicans
What was Reconstruction?
When African Americans wanted to vote, this was often used to make sure they could read and write (not for good reasons)
What is a literacy test?
The first battle of the Civil War
What was Fort Sumter?
Amendment that freed slaves
What is the 13th Amendment?
The compromise maintained the balance between the number of free states and slave states in the Senate
What was the Missouri Compromise?
President at the height of Reconstruction (was a formal military General)
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
[DOUBLE JEOPARDY]
The year Reconstruction ended and if it was a success or failure
What is 1877 and it failed?
Bloodiest battle in the Civil War
What was Antietam?
Amendment that gave all people the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
The constitutional issue raised by Abraham Lincoln to Congress over the South at the beginning of the Civil War
What is the legal right to secede?
President Lincoln's vision for Reconstruction was taken over by this man after Lincoln's assassination
Who was Andrew Johnson?
What took place all over the US, mostly in the South, after the failure of Reconstruction (think vocab word/video clip we watched)
What was segregation?
[DOUBLE JEOPARDY]
A battle won by the Union over a 3 day period in Pennsylvania
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Amendment that gave citizenship to all people born in the US (regardless of race)
What is the 14th Amendment?
A person from the South and collaborated with northern Republicans for personal profit
Who is a scalawag?
Agency that tried helping newly freed slaves
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
When the military takes control and becomes the police in an area
What was martial law?
Battle of Vicksburg which gave the Union control of this key geographical resource
What is the Mississippi River?
A person from the North who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction
What is a carpetbagger?
[DOUBLE JEOPARDY]
A human geography characteristic (not physical) that helped the North win the Civil War
What were railroads?