Places
It was the first U.S. state to secede, leading to the Civil War.
South Carolina
A major turning point in the U.S. Civil War: G_T_Y_B_R_.
Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln: "A ____ divided against itself cannot stand.”
House
Meaning "before the war", it commonly refers to the period before the American Civil War.
Antebellum
By the end of Reconstruction, production of this "king" crop in the South was nearly equal to pre-war levels.
Cotton
This fort, built to protect Charleston, South Carolina, saw the first fatality of the Civil War.
Sumter
After a 47-day siege, this Mississippi River port fell to Union troops on July 4, 1863.
Vicksburg
Abraham Lincoln called this document, which took effect in 1863, “a fit and necessary war measure.”
Emancipation Proclamation
It was a scornful term for a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from Reconstruction.
Carpetbaggers
This man's impeachment trial brought Senate president pro tem Ben Wade within 1 vote of being U.S. president.
Andrew Johnson
Shortly after the Confederacy's surrender, this leader was captured by federal troops in Irwin County, Ga. May 10, 1865.
With Atlanta burning in their wake, 62,000 soldiers under Gen. Sherman marched 300 miles to the sea in Nov. & Dec. of this year.
1864
In 1868 this amendment gave African Americans full citizenship.
Fourteenth Amendment
This term for Northerners opposed to the Civil War likened them to a snake in the grass.
Copperheads
Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner were leaders of this “extreme” group in Lincoln’s party advocating emancipation.
Radical Republicans
The last battlefield death of the war was Union Pvt. John Williams, who was killed at Palmito Ranch in this state in May 1865.
Texas
Patented in 1862, this new weapon of war featured multiple barrels rotated by a crank.
Gatling Gun
In 1863 Congress passed the first act implementing this in the U.S., leading to riots in New York City & elsewhere.
Conscription
Once a term for a worthless farm animal, it referred to white Southerners who supported the Republicans.
Scalawags
This bureau, among others, built over 4,000 schools for African Americans, including Howard University.
Freedman's Bureau
A Union victory in the 1864 Battle of this city on the Cumberland River ended Southern resistance in Tennessee.
Shiloh
Also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, this Sept. 17, 1862 clash was the Civil War's bloodiest one-day conflict.
Antietam
"You or any officer you may designate will, in your discretion, suspend the writ of habeas corpus.”
Abraham Lincoln
Confederate troops used a high-pitched battle cry known by this 2-word name; it may have derived from fox hunting.
Rebel Yell
Reconstruction ended when this President removed the last of the Federal troops from Louisiana on April 24, 1877.
Rutherford B. Hayes