The major Union victory known as the turning point of the war was ________________.
Gettysburg
Much of the ________ was devastated at the end of the war (e.g., the burning of Atlanta and Richmond).
South
How did the collapse of the Confederacy affect its economy/ money?
The money became worthless. $100 Confederate dollars equalled $1.76 Union dollars.
How did the Civil War begin?
When the Southerners attacked the Union at Fort Sumter in SC
The Union army invaded the South. The Confederate army never went further north than _______________________.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
The South held on to its anger that it lost the war. An actor blamed the southern lost on one man. He took his revenge out on President Lincoln. What was the actor's name?
John Wilkes Booth
The North was struggling to pay off the war debt so the government created ___________ in order to collect more money from the citizens?
Income tax
The South was destroyed. Where could southerners and newly freed African Americans go to make a better life?
Out west. The Homestead Act made it possible to own cheap land out west and start a new life.
As the war went on, whose troops became increasingly young?
The Confederate troops
What amendment ended slavery in the U.S.?
13th Amendment
General Sherman also captured the city of Atlanta during what was known as the _______ ________.
Atlanta Campaign / Sherman's march to the sea
What was the name of the battle that took place in southern Mississippi, dividing the South, where the North controlled the Mississippi River?
The Battle of Vicksburg
Which area was basically untouched by the war? The society did not have to rebuild and carried on just as before.
The North. The South was completely destroyed. The railroad was torn up. The plantations and farms were burned. There were food riots and food shortages.
The ________ Amendment protects a person's life, liberty, and property. The _____ Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
14th and 15th