Amendments
This amendment officially made slavery illegal across the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Union victory near Chattanooga was nicknamed the “Battle Above the Clouds.”
What is the Battle of Lookout Mountain?
President Lincoln created this organization to help formerly enslaved people and the poor.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
He became the Union general who led Northern troops after Gettysburg.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This Grand Division had a small enslaved population and wanted to stay with the Union.
What is East Tennessee?
This amendment guarantees citizenship to everyone born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The Confederates built Fort ________ on the Tennessee River, and Fort ________ on the Cumberland River.
What are Fort Henry and Fort Donelson?
This new university in Nashville was created for the education of formerly enslaved people.
What is Fisk University?
This group became a domestic terrorist organization targeting African Americans and Republicans during Reconstruction.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This Grand Division had a large enslaved population and many wanted to join the Confederacy.
What is West Tennessee?
This amendment guaranteed all free men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This battle was fought near the TN/KY border; its capture opened the Cumberland River to Union invasion.
What is the Siege of Fort Donelson?
These laws in the South unfairly restricted African Americans’ rights after the Civil War.
What were the Black Codes?
This man assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This Grand Division had a mixed opinion—some supported the Confederacy, some stayed neutral.
What is Middle Tennessee?
Even though the 15th Amendment protected voting rights, Tennessee added this restriction that kept many Black voters from voting.
What is the poll tax?
After this major battle, the war was essentially over for the state of Tennessee.
What is the Battle of Nashville?
Under Tennessee’s 3rd Constitution, all public schools were required to be this.
What is segregated?
Many white southerners called northern businesspeople who moved south after the war by this nickname.
What is carpetbagger?
This Grand Division rejected the secession convention.
What is East Tennessee?
These laws passed after Reconstruction restricted African American voting, causing no African Americans to be elected again until 1964.
What were the electoral reform laws of 1889?
Confederate General Hood attacked Union troops on Nov. 30, 1864, in this bloody battle.
What is the Battle of Franklin?
What was the main purpose of Reconstruction?
What is helping Southern states rejoin the Union?
The nickname Southerners used for white southerners who helped the Union or Republicans.
What is scalawag?
This Grand Division supported the Confederacy partly due to its large cotton plantations.
What is West Tennessee?