Civil War Battles
Civil War
Politics
People
Reconstruction
100

This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.

Battle of Gettysburg

100

Union general who was fired.

George McClellan

100

This Amendment abolished slavery.

Thirteenth Amendment

100

Union nurse who founded the Red Cross

Clara Barton

100

President after Abraham Lincoln. Had lenient policies.

Andrew Johnson

200

This person won the first Battle of Bull Run for the Confederacy.

Stonewall Jackson

200
Confederate general who opposed secession.

Robert E. Lee

200

New York Tribune editor who ran for president in 1872. Died after not winning the election.

Horace Greeley

200

President after Andrew Johnson. His presidency was filled with scandal.

Ulysses S. Grant

200

Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction

Ten-Percent Plan

300

This was the bloodiest single day battle of the war. 

Battle of Antietam

300

Union general who burned his way through Georgia and South Carolina.

William Tecumseh Sherman

300

1876 Democratic candidate who won the popular vote but lost to Rutherford B. Hayes

Samuel J. Tilden

300

First African American senator

Hiram Revels

300

This ended Reconstruction.

Compromise of 1877

400

This person was the hero at the Battle of Vicksburg (one of the last holdouts in the Mississippi River) and became commander of all Union armies.

Ulysses S. Grant

400

Freed the slaves in Confederate states. 

Emancipation Proclamation 

400

Won the 1876 election because of a deal between Party members. 

Rutherford B. Hayes

400
Andrew Johnson fired this person, and as a result had 11 charges of impeachment.

Edwin Stanton

400

People living in the South who supported the Democratic Party.

Scalawags

500

First battle of the Civil War. Lincoln did not immediately attack because he didn't want to anger the remaining slave states in the Union.

Fort Sumter

500

Union commander who seized New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Natchez

David G. Farragut

500

State government that is run without interference from the federal government.

Home rule
500

Leaders of the Radical Republicans.

Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens

500

Said that everyone born in the United States would be a citizen.

Fourteenth Amendment

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