The Civil War
What Battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
What was the name of the order that freed enslaved people in Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
This defined all people born or naturalized in the US as citizens (except for Native Americans)
14th amendment
This president used the telegraph and railroads to help the Union war effort.
Abraham Lincoln
Which war had the highest number of American deaths up to that time?
The Civil War
What was a major cause of death besides battle wounds during the Civil War?
Disease
Which group of states did the Emancipation Proclamation apply to?
Confederate (rebelling) states
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th amendment
This Union general accepted Lee’s surrender and allowed Confederate soldiers to keep their horses.
Grant (Ulysses S Grant)
This major speech included the phrase “government of the people, by the people, for the people”.
The Gettysburg Address
What is the term for the tactic of targeting civilian infrastructure (roads, bridges, agriculture) during war?
Total War
What amendment freed enslaved people in states not covered by the Emancipation Proclamation?
13th amendment
What were poll taxes and literacy tests used for in the South?
deny African Americans their rights
This was the Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
Lee (Robert E Lee)
This was the name for Southern Democrats who took power after Reconstruction and took away African-American's civil rights.
Redeemers
What group/kind of people created their own military units in places like Kansas and Louisiana?
Freed African Americans
The Emancipation Proclamation did not apply to these states.
Border States
This was the name of the secret society that used violence to oppose civil rights.
Ku Klux Klan / KKK
This woman was called the “Angel of the Battlefield”.
Clara Barton
This is a person from the North who moved South after the war for profit.
Carpetbagger
What campaign destroyed much of Georgia during the Civil War?
Sherman's "March to the Sea"
What modern celebration/holiday is linked to the delayed enforcement of emancipation?
Juneteenth
The Panic of 1877, The Compromise of 1877, and the presidential election of Rutherford B. Hayes led to this.
End of Reconstruction
This person was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Hiram Revels
This case legalized segregation in the United States.
Plessy vs Ferguson