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Reconstruction
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King Cotton
What was the foremost crop of the big southern plantations?
100
The First Battle of Bull Run.
What is the first major battle of the Civil War?
100
He was the President of the United States from 1861-1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The battle that began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This pardoned all southerners, except high ranking Confederate officials, granted citizenship to all after an oath supporting the US Constitution, and once 10 percent of the voters had done so, granted the state re-entry to the Union.
What is Lincoln's Ten Percent Plan?
200
This drove the economy of the Northern States.
What is Industry?
200
The first major battle that an all-African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, fought in and won.
What is Fort Wagner?
200
He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This is where General Sherman ended his march to the sea.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
200
The former Confederate States were divided up into regions and governed by Northern Generals until these States satisfied the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
What are military districts?
300
This was the economy of the Southern States.
What is agriculture?
300
This battle took place over a week as McClellan's Union army attempted to attack Lee's forces near Richmond, eventually resulting in a Confederate victory.
What is The Seven Days Battle?
300
He was President Lincoln's Vice-President, President of the United States after Lincoln was assassinated, and impeached by Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
Abraham Lincoln was shot here.
What is Ford's Theater?
300
President Johnson failed to obey the Tenure of Office Act, was tried by the Senate, and retained his office by one vote.
What is impeachment?
400
This is the main cause for which the North fought.
What is abolition of slavery?
400
This battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil War and is often described as the war's turning point, in which the Union's Maj. Gen. George Meade's Army of the Potomac defeated attacks by the Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, and ended Lee's attempt to invade the North.
What is Gettysburg?
400
He was the General in charge of the Confederate Armies.
Who Robert E. Lee?
400
The Confederate capitol.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
400
This pardoned all Confederates except high ranking officials, and readmitted states after they abolished slavery and rescinded their secession documents.
What was Johnson's Reconstruction Plan?
500
This was the chief cause of the Civil War?
What is slavery?
500
This yielded command of the Mississippi River to Union Forces, and combined with Gettysburg, became the turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
500
He was the General in charge of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War and received General Lee's sword which he returned.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
500
General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
This organized the former Confederate States into five military districts with a Northern General in charge of each, banned former Confederate leaders from voting, and allowed states to be readmitted only after they ratified the Fourteenth Amendment and created a new state constitution that gave former slaves the right to vote.
What are the Congressional Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
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