Before the War
Who were the Northern Elite
This side had an advantage from having a larger population and greater manufacturing.
What is the Union
This amendment made it illegal to discriminate voting rights based on race
What is the Fifteenth Amendment
The 16th President of the United States, served during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this novel convinced many in the north that slavery was evil.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
This side had the advantage in tactics because of more military colleges (better generals) and fighting in familiar territory
What is the Confederacy
This date celebrates the final Union victory on June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Texas where all enslaved people finally became free
What is Juneteenth
The first president of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis
The main reason for the Civil War
What is slavery
Varied in power, but all supported slavery and its expansion West
Who were Southern Farmers
This was a short, but emotionally powerful speech made by President Lincoln to commemorate the fallen at a famous Civil War battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address
Important amendment that establishes citizenship for anyone born in the United States, establishes due process for all, and that all laws are equally applied to everyone.
What is the fourteenth amendment
The greatest general in the Civil War, and the commander of the Confederate Army of Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee
Popular violent white supremacy group active during Reconstruction who killed Black and African Americans and intimidated white reformers.
Who is the Ku Klux Klan
Supreme Court ruling declaring that Black Americans were not citizens
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford
This practical document freed enslaved people in the Confederacy, and allowed Black men to serve in the Union army, but said nothing about enslaved people in the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment was ratified in December of 1865 and officially made slavery illegal in the United States
What is the Thirteenth Amendment
The man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth
The year the Civil War began
What is 1861
Episode of violence where supporters and opponents of slavery tried to make Kansas a slave or free state
What is Bleeding Kansas
The place where Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union general Ulysses S. Grant
What is Appomattox Courthouse
Reconstruction ended in failure when this backroom deal allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to become president with the understanding that he would remove federal troops from the South
What is the Compromise of 1877
The most successful Union general and the commander who accepted Lee's surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
The new medium that allowed people all over the world to see the horrors of war.
What is the photograph