Cities
Capital of the Confederate States
Richmond, Virginia
Actor who assassinated President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Name the mail route between St. Joseph, MO, and Sacramento, CA, whose carriers traveled on horseback.
Pony Express
Where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
Vice President who became President after Lincoln's death
Andrew Johnson
"Angel of the Battlefield" and founder of the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Place where the two railroads met, completing the transcontinental railroad
Promontory Point, Utah
Head of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
Black educator and founder of a college; author of Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington
Union Pacific Railroad began here
Omaha, Nebraska
General Lee's most valuable assistant and one of the greatest military heroes of the Civil War
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Black botanist who encouraged farmers to diversity their crops and helped restore the South to prosperity; his laboratory became known as "God's Little Workshop"
George Washington Carver
Central Pacific Railroad began here
Sacramento, California
Union general who captured Atlanta and "marched to the sea"
William T. Sherman
What school was started by Booker T. Washington in Alabama?
Tuskegee Institute