Civil War Leaders
He served as president of the Confederate States.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
His invention of the lightbulb helped transform American industry.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This term describes the overcrowded, poorly built apartment buildings for immigrants.
What are tenements?
The commanding general of the Union Army by the end of the war.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle in Maryland became the single bloodiest day in American history.
What is Antietam?
These laws attempted to restrict African Americans’ rights in the South immediately after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
The first U.S. transcontinental railroad met at this location in 1869.
What is Promontory Point, Utah?
This man took photographs inside New York's worst suburbs using an early form of a flashbulb.
Who is Jacob Riis?
This Confederate general earned a nickname at First Bull Run for standing firm.
Who is “Stonewall” Jackson?
This turning-point battle in Pennsylvania ended Lee’s northern invasion.
What is Gettysburg?
This organization was created to provide food, education, and assistance to freed people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This steel magnate used vertical integration to control his industry.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Journalists who exposed corruption and poor conditions were known as these.
What are muckrakers?
She served as a battlefield nurse and later founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Grant won control of the Mississippi River after this siege.
What is Vicksburg?
This amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This industrialist dominated the oil industry using horizontal integration.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This southern policy was designed to negate the 14th amendment.
What is separate but equal?
This Union general’s “March to the Sea” devastated the South’s infrastructure.
Who is William T. Sherman?
The final major battle in Virginia where Lee surrendered.
What is Appomattox Court House?
A deal ending the disputed 1876 election also ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This industrialist created a railroad monopoly.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt?
This philosophy justified wealth inequality by arguing that the “fittest” succeed.
What is Social Darwinism?