The Civil War
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Ft. Sumter?
This battle was the South's second and last invasion of the North.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
What was "total war?"
What was Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction?
No one won a majority of electoral votes in this presidential election.
What was the Election of 1876?
First major battle of the Civil War.
What was the 1st Battle of Bull Run?
This battle is considered the turning point in the American Civil War.
What was the battle of Gettysburg?
The Union victory here helped Lincoln get reelcted in 1864.
What was Atlanta?
Lincoln was the first president to die in this way.
What was assassinated?
He became the 19th President after a special (and unconstitutional) committee selected him in 1877.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
This is how the USA paid for the Civil War.
What was an income tax?
A brief speech dedicating a military cemetary at a battlefield.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
He became the 17th President after Lincoln died.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This withdrew the last remaining troops from the South and ended Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
The South's greatest advantage at the start of the Civil War.
What were the generals?
The end of this seige is considered the turning point in the WEST.
What was the seige of Vicksburg?
Union General Grant's strategy to bring about a surrender of the South.
What was "war of attrition?"
This plan called for each state to call a new constitutional convention and ratify the 13th Amendment.
What was Johnson's Plan?
They wanted to punish the South for the Civil War.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
After the Union victory at Antietam, Lincoln felt he could issue this to free the slaves in states that were in rebellion.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Union took complete control of this when the Seige of Vicksburg ended.
What was the Mississippi River?
Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant here.
What was Appomattox Court House?
This called for the South to be divided up into 5 separate military districts.
What was the Military Reconstruction Act?
This refers to the time period between the end of Reconstruction and the modern Civil Rights Movement for African Americans.
What was the "Long Night?"