Timeline of the Civil war
When did the Civil War start?
April 12, 1861
The president of the United States during the Civil War. He was assassinated five days after the end of the war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
What do you call the agricultural system that developed in the South after the Civil War which often left families in debt to land owners and led to many African-Americans to a sort of economic slavery?
What is Sharecropping
When did the Civil War end?
April 9, 1865
The site of the South's surrender to the Union forces in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House
When did the Reconstruction Era start and end? (Years)
1865-1877
After Lincoln's assassination, who became president?
Who is Andrew Johnson
Three months before Lee surrendered, Congress passed this, which prohibited slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment
Created by former confederates to suppress the vote and restore antebellum America in the south.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
Because the race for the 1876 presidential election was so close, what enabled Rutherford B. Hayes to take office in return for the end of Reconstruction?
What is the Compromise of 1877
What major event happened after the Battle of Antietam?
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the general Lincoln fired after the Battle of Antietam because he was frustrated with his errors and inability to destroy Lee's army.
Who is George McClellan
Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for this battlefield cemetery to honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war, and indeed of the United States government, in his historic address.
What is Gettysburg
Who did Congress decide to impeach when he did not follow the Radical Reconstruction plan and when he broke the Tenure of Office Act?
President Andrew Johnson
What month and year did Lincoln give his second inaugural address to the nation, urging the nation to "bind up its wounds" and move to peace?
March of 1865
Known as "The Angel of the Battlefield" for her work caring for wounded soldiers during the Civil War, who founded the American Red Cross in 1881?
Clara Barton
After reaching Savanna, Georgia, Gen. William T. Sherman sent Lincoln a note that said he destroyed much of the south east, thus helping to bring the war to an end. What is this event famous called?
Sherman's March to the Sea
Originally used to describe a person, typically from the North, who moved to the South after the War seeking to take advantage of the unstable political and economic situation for personal gain.
Hint: What would they travel with?
Carpetbagger
The president who pulled Northern troops out of the South in 1876, signaling the official end of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow era in the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes