Terms
Vocabulary
People
Early Stages of War
Life During the War
100
The time after the war when the country was rebuilding and healing
Reconstruction
100
Republicans in Congress called for the (assassination/ impeachment) of President Andrew Johnson.
Impeachment
100
The Vice President who became President after President Lincoln was assassinated.
Andrew Johnson
100
A three-part war strategy to crush the South during the Civil War
Anaconda plan
100
President Lincoln’s goal at the beginning of the Civil War.
Keep the country united
200
The practice of renting land from landowners and then paying the rent with a portion of the crop produced on that land.
Sharecropping
200
Both the North and the South instituted the (blockade/draft) to get men to fight in the war
Draft
200
General in control of all Union forces.
Ulysses S. Grant
200
How news of the war spread.
articles in the newspaper, letters, photographs
300
A method of warfare designed to destroy the opposing army and the people’s will to fight
Total War
300
Slavery was abolished by the (13th/14th/15th) amendment to the Constitution.
13th
300
Commander of the Confederate forces in the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
300
Produced more than 90% of the country’s weapons, cloth, shoes, and iron.
North/Union
300
The most common cause of death in the Civil War
infection
400
Laws that denied African Americans many things, including the right to vote, to take part in jury trials, to own land or guns, or to take certain jobs.
Black Codes
400
African Americans became U.S. citizens under the (13th/14th/15th) amendment to the Constitution.
14th
400
Confederate general who “stood like a stone wall.”
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
400
What was the first Battle of the Civil War
Battle of Bull Run
400
Fort where the 54th Regiment showed many Northerners that black soldiers had the ability to fight.
Fort Wagner
500
A statement that freed all slaves in the Confederate states at war with the Union
Emancipation Proclamation
500
All male citizens received the right to vote with the ratification of the (13th/14th/15th) amendment to the Constitution.
15th
500
Union general whose “March to the Sea” helped to defeat the Confederacy
William Sherman
500
Which battle was the bloodiest day of the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
500
“Angel of the Battlefield” that cared for wounded soldiers during the First Battle of Bull Run.
Clara Barton
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