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This president used railroads, telegraphs, and private corporate cooperation to fight the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This 3-day battle (a Union victory) in Pennsylvania was the "turning point" of the war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
The unpopularity of this presidential military order among some northerners stemmed from its limited focus on states in rebellion and its questionable constitutionality.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Union General Sherman's southern campaign in 1864-65 was known as Sherman's____________.
What is Sherman's March to The Sea?
This constitutional amendment abolished slavery EVERYWHERE in the US (except as a punishment for a crime).
What is the 13th Amendment?
This "Angel of the Battlefield" tended wounded soldiers and civilians and founded the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
The battle against this "enemy" resulted in more deaths, in both armies, than any battle-related causes such as gunshot wounds, artillery fire, etc.
What is disease?
This presidential address at the site of a great battle declared that "government of the people" would endure through the efforts those who fell there.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
In the doctrine of total war, this group of people not directly involved in the fighting are deliberately made to suffer.
What are civilians?
This constitutional amendment made former slaves citizens and banned former insurrectionists from holding public office.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Confederate General lost half his regiment at Gettysburg as they advanced in the open during this "charge."
Who was George Pickett?
These fighters formed their own units in Kansas and Louisiana but served mostly as laborers until later in the war.
Who were free African-Amerians?
Grant's generocity toward Lee at Appomattox Courthouse prompted him to allow the surrendering Confederates to keep these two items.
What are horses and side-arms?
These forms of infrastructure (networks facilitating communication and transportation) were intentionally destroyed by Sherman in his campaign of total war.
What are railroads, bridges, roads, ports, agricultural sites, and urban centers?
This constitutional amendment gave formerly enslaved men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This general led a "total War" campaign through the South (the "March to the Sea") taking or destroying everything in his path.
Who was William T. Sherman?
The many battles that comprised this war resulted in more casualties than all previous wars combined.
What is the US Civil War?
This group of Americans sometimes supported the Union and sometimes the Confederacy, depending on how they saw their political and cultural interests affected.
Who were Indigenous peoples?
Sherman said he would make Georgia do this during his March to the Sea.
What is "howl?"
This is the process of readmitting the South back into the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
These free African-Americans from New England fought in heated combat after the Emancipation Proclamation authorized their use in battle.
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
This Union victory at an important rail hub in Georgia helped to convince voters to reelect Lincoln in 1864 in a landslide.
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
Lincoln defeated this former Union general (whom he had fired twice) in the 1864 election.
Who was McClellan?
The term "casualties" in the context of war includes these battlefield losses.
What are dead, missing, wounded, and captured?
This president and the Congress disagreed violently over how to conduct Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?