Good Fellas
Important Union general who served under Ulysses S. Grant in both the west and east; famous for his "March to the Sea" through Georgia in 1864.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Published a novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852, which stressed that slavery was not just a political contest, but also a great moral struggle.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Adopted in 1870 and prohibits denial of voting rights to people for race or for being former slaves.
Fifteenth Amendment?
System of routes along which runaway slaves were helped to escape to Canada or to safe areas in the free states.
What is The Underground Railroad?
Secret organization that used terrorist tactics for white supremacy in the south after the civil war.
What is The Ku Klux Klan?
Dedicated Union nurse who founded the American Red Cross after the war.
Who is Clara Barton?
A slave who appealed to the Supreme Court for his freedom on the grounds that that living in a free state (Illinois) and a free territory (Wisconsin) had made him a free man.
Who is Dred Scott?
Fourteenth Amendment
Adopted in 1868 and makes all persons born, naturalized, or former slave in the U.S. to be citizens and guarantees equal protection under the law.
One of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad who was born a slave in Maryland in 1820 or 1821 and helped 300 slaves flee to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
System which landowners give farm workers land, seed, and tools in return for a part of the crops they raise.
What is sharecropping?
Union general and decisive military commander whose forces captured two western forts in just eleven days; Lincoln gave him command of the Union army in the east which led to Union victory.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Democratic incumbent running opponent against Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 race for US Senate.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Amendment adopted in 1865 that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is Thirteenth Amendment?
Most important out of four southern forts which is located on an island in Charleston Harbor.
What is Fort Sumter?
First African American senator
Who is Hiram Revels?
Nickname given to Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson after his brave conduct at the Battle of Bull Run.
What is Stonewall?
Former senator of Mississippi who was unanimously elected as president by the Confederates.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
Location of first bloodshed on the battlefield during the Civil War; only 25 miles from Washington, DC
What is Bull Run?
A northerner who moved to the south after the civil war
What is a carpetbagger?
Republican candidate who ran against Stephen Douglas in 1858 race for US Senate.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Commanding general of the Confederate armies in the east; from Virginia and was determined to save the Confederate capital; kept Union armies at bay for three years using expert military defensive tactics.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Famous speech by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is The Gettysburg Address?
Maryland creek where forces of Union General McClellan met Confederate General Lee's army, leading to a battle on September 17 that proved to be the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history.
What is Antietnam?
17th President of U.S.; from Tennessee; Lincoln's successor who tried to break the planters' power by excluding high ranking former Confederates and wealthy southern landowners from taking oath needed to restore their voting privileges; believed that "white man alone must manage the South."
Who is Andrew Johnson?