Civil War Battle
What were the first official shots of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
President of the United States of America
Abraham Lincoln
What technology would change travel in America forever during the Reconstruction Era
The Railroad
What was the Fugitive Slave Law
Allowed Southern to recaptured run away slaves. And Northern had to help return them for fear of punishment
The impact of the Black codes was to
Restrict freedom of former slaves
Will be the bloodiest single day battle in American History
Battle of Antietam
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Who wanted to punish the South for the Civil War during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
What was the first Southern State to Secede from the Union
Who is South Carolina
Which amendment would end slavery
13th
The importance of the Battle of Gettysburg was
Turning point of the War
Leader of the Confederate forces
A poor tenant farmer who gave the landowner a share of his crop in lieu of rent money was called a:
Sharecropper
When people vote directly on the issue of slavery, it was called
What is Popular Sovereignty
What did the 15th amendment accomplish?
Gave all Male African Americans the right to vote
Lee will surrender here, ending the Civil War
Appomattox Court House
Lee will surrender to this Union General at Appomattox Courthouse
general Ulysses S. Grant
A radical terrorist group that threaten free blacks in the south
The KKK
Who was the abolitionist who tried to arm a slave rebellion at Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do
Freed slaves that were part of the Confederate states
What General marched through Georgia to the sea Burning everything down?
Union General Sherman
What was Lincoln primary Goal of the Civil War
To preserve the Union
Lincoln and Johnson's Reconstruction Plans were what towards the south?
Were very lenient. Wanted to reunite the nation as quickly as possible.
What was the last straw cause of the Civil War?
Election Of Lincoln
What was the main accomplishment of the Freedmen's Bureau?
providing aid and education to emancipated slaves