Presidents
Lincoln’s primary goal upon becoming President of the United States was preserving this
The Union
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued a few days after the Battle of Antietam on September 22, 1862, by this person
President Abraham Lincoln
This Confederate general was well-respected and resigned from the U.S. Army when his home state of Virginia seceded to join the Confederate Army. He would end up surrendering to General Grant at Appomattox Court House in 1865
Robert E. Lee
The official start of the war came when this state opened fire on a Federal fort
South Carolina
Black Codes were laws that discriminated against _______________ and were passed throughout the South in the former states of the Confederacy
Newly Freed Slaves
This term is used to describe the era when, “the reorganization and reestablishment of the seceded states back into the Union after the Civil War” occurred
Reconstruction
This President was in conflict with Congress for nearly the whole of his time in office, leading to him being the first US President to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African American men to volunteer and join the ______________
Union Army
After numerous disagreements early in the Civil War, President Lincoln fired this Union general who’d later run against him in 1864 for the presidency
George McClellan
Arguably, the Civil War started early, in this Territory, when it organized two different governments (one slavery supporting, one anti-slavery) and then had violence break out over the issues
Kansas
This kind of law allowed white land owners to pay the state a small fee in order for a group of prisoners to do labor on their land
Convict Lease Laws
This anti-slavery zealot was responsible for a number of deaths and acts of violence in the decade leading up to the Civil War
John Brown
On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln gave this short speech, one of the most significant in U.S. history
Gettysburg Address
This amendment abolished slavery, but was later weakened by practices such as convict lease laws and sharecropping
This side of the Civil War had very capable, well trained military leadership, thanks to a long tradition of sending younger sons into the military.
The Confederation
This battle is remembered as the bloodiest day in US history, surpassing D-Day, 9/11, and the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Battle of Antietam
This set of Black Codes was designed to try and arrest newly freed people who did not yet have a job or a home (creating a potential pool of laborers in the form of prisoners)
Vagrancy Laws
This is the term for removing the right or ability to vote from a person or group of people
Disenfranchisement
This US President was chosen to run for office almost without his consent, when the Republican Party decided that a Civil War hero would be a good choice to endorse
Ulysses S Grant
The 14th amendment guaranteed that all people born in the USA were full citizens of the country, but it was later weakened by_______________
Segregation practices and other Jim Crow laws, relegating African Americans to second-class citizenship
This Union general was promoted to lieutenant general, the highest rank in the U.S. military at that time, and the first person since George Washington to hold the rank
Ulysses S. Grant
Due to their important materials, their physical location, and their high population, these states were crucial to the Union's war effort, in spite of them being slave states (50 extra credit point for all that you can name)
The Border States (Missouri, Delaware, West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland)
Laws focusing on segregation came to be collectively known as __________________
Jim Crow Laws
This man was the only successful assassin of the four planned attacks on key leaders of the Union
John Wilkes Booth
Name at least 2 of the challenges facing President Grant when he took office
Building a working relationship with Congress, after it's conflicts with President Johnson; Continuing Reconstruction; Protecting the rights of newly freed citizens; confronting the KKK and other Southern groups
The ______________ amendment guaranteed (male) citizens the right to vote, but it was later weakened by __________________
The 15th Amendment
Educational requirements to vote and poll tax laws
This was the oldest, most respected General at the start of the Civil War- he had served in both the war of 1812, and the Mexican-American War previously. But his advanced age meant that he was not an effective leader for the Civil War.
General Winfield Scott
List at least three of the advantages the North had at the start of the Civil War.
Bonus- what advantages did the South have?
North: Greater population, general wealth, manufacturing ability, transportation ability, resources and materials
South: Fighting for their home, fighting defensively, fighting on home ground, better military leadership
One set of laws, regarding what kind of work newly freed citizens could apply for, said that African Americans could only work as ______________ or ___________________.
Domestic help; farmer laborer
This is the name for the former enslaved people who chose to leave the South, heading either to the North or to the West (about 20,000 settled in Kansas)
Exodusters