This was the first Battle of the Civil War- it was a Confederate Victory.
What is the Battle of Ft Sumter?
100
This man led the Confederacy's military and was known as the best military man in the United States when the war started.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
100
This was one of the most important acts in building an identity that newly freed peoples did after they gained their freedom.
What is choosing a name?
100
This Constitutional Amendment declares that all people born in the United States are equal citizens regardless of their race.
What is the 14th Amendment?
100
This group of politicians supported granting broad civil rights to freedpeople during Reconstruction.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
200
This battle in Pennsylvania was a turning point in the war after a mistake by Robert E. Lee.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
This general from Galena, IL led the Union army to victory in the second half of the Civil War. He was later elected President of the United States.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
200
This government organization was responsible for helping freedpeople gain jobs, land, and education after the war was over.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
This Constitutional Amendment bans slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
You cannot use this part of your body in soccer.
What is the arm or hand?
300
During and after Civil War battles, this was the most common cause of death.
What is infection or disease?
300
This Union general was well known for his "March to the Sea." He later gave freedpeople land along the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
300
This economic system replaced slavery on many of the plantations of the South after the Civil War. It was like slavery in many ways.
What is sharecropping?
300
This law, eventually vetoed by Andrew Johnson, gave rights to people of all races with similar protections as in the 14th Amendment.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
300
This Freedman who a letter to his former master explaining why he probably will not return to work on the plantation.
Who was Jourdan Anderson?
400
It is estimated that approximately this percentage of the U.S. population died during the Civil War.
What is 2-3% of the population?
400
This man helped convince Abraham Lincoln to allow black soldiers to serve in the Union army, which greatly helped in the war effort.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
400
As a result of Radical Reconstruction, the number of black officeholders in the United States eventually surpassed this number.
What is 2,000?
400
This Constitutional Amendment granted voting rights to all men, regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
This woman founded the American Red Cross and fought for more sanitary conditions for soldiers.
Who was Clara Barton?
500
This is the number of Confederate soldiers who are buried in national cemeteries created to honor those who died in the war.
What is 0?
500
This man was selected to be Abraham Lincoln's Vice-Presidential Candidate in 1864 because he was the only southern senator who stayed loyal to the Union.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
500
This civic organization was responsible for educating African Americans about their political rights during Reconstruction.
What is the Union League?
500
These laws divided the South into military districts to ensure they followed federal laws and prevent another rebellion.
What are the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?
500
This is the name historians give to the exchange of organisms between the old and new worlds that took place after exploration.