Civil War Battles
The first shots of the Civil War were fired during this battle.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This group of ex-confederate soldiers used terror to intimidate black voters.
What is the Klu Klux Klan?
This person helped hundreds of slaves escape from the south before the Civil War on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This word means to leave the Union.
What is Secession?
This Supreme Court case said that black people weren’t citizens of America and had no rights.
What is the Dredd Scott case?
This battle lasted 3 days and killed over 29,000 soldiers.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This amendment officially ended slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This person was elected president of the United States in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This system allowed landowners to rent land to poor farmers in exchange for a part of their harvest.
What is Sharecropping?
These 3 amendments granted basic rights to all Americans regardless of race.
What is the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after this Union victory.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This government program provided Black people with assistance after the war.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This person tried to start a slave uprising at Harper’s Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
This system trapped poor farmers into a form of slavery.
What is Debt Peonage?
This was a result of the Civil War.
What is slavery ending, the federal government getting more power, the south being destroyed?
This was the last battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Appomattox Court House?
This law gave all black people in the United States citizenship.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
This person led the Union army during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
This system proposed to let the people of each new state decide if they would allow slavery or not.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This compromise allowed Republicans to win the presidential election of 1876 in exchange for the army leaving the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Victory in this battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This group wanted to use Reconstruction to punish Confederates, reshape the South, and promote Black equality.
What is the Radical Republicans?
This person ended Reconstruction by withdrawing the army from the south in 1877.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
The process of forcing the president to leave office for committing a crime.
What is impeach/impeachment?
What were the three different plans for Reconstruction after the Civil War?
What is Lincoln's Plan, Johnson's Plan, and the Radical Republican's Plan?