Reconstruction
The South was divided into this many Military Districts after the Civil War: 3, 5, or 7
What is 5?
These people lived in the West long before Europeans settled North America.
Who are Native Americans?
It was called a "peculiar institution" and a "necessary evil" in the southern part of the United States before the Civil War.
What is slavery?
What year did the Civil War begin?
What is 1861?
A president who was very honest and known as "Honest Abe"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Amendment to the US Constitution outlawed slavery within all US controlled territories and states: 13th, 14th, or 15th.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The two railroads that worked to build the Transcontinental Railroad.
What are the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific Railroads?
This was the group of southern states that left the Union after the Battle of Fort Sumter.
What is the Confederate States of America?
Which Union General marched his troops across the South, destroying everything in their path, in order to terrorize the people and cripple the economy?
Who is Sherman?
I shot President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
True or False: The Union Army did not occupy any southern cities after the Civil War.
False. The Union Army occupied the south for almost 10 years during Reconstruction.
This was the fastest way to get mail and news from Missouri to California before the telegraph was invented. (Hint: they had a system of stations along the way where they changed horses)
What is the Pony Express?
This was the plan to defeat the CSA during the Civil War. It included blockades and controlling the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What battle is considered to be the turning point of the Civil War?
What is Gettysburg?
I led the Confederate States of America's army after the battle of Chancelorsville.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This person wanted to help the newly freed slaves create new and better lives for themselves and their families: scalawag or carpetbagger.
Who is a scalawag?
This president signed the Homestead Act in law in 1862 which allowed people to get 160 acres in free land in exchange for living on the property for 5 years.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This speech was given by Abraham Lincoln after the turning point of the Civil War and was only 230 words long and took less than 3 minutes to deliver.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This type of ship was invented during the Civil War to minimize the damage that cannonballs did to wooden ships.
What are Ironclads?
The lady that went to the Civil War battlefields AGAINST orders and founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
His election as President ended Reconstruction and put an end to Grant's scandal-ridden presidency?
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
He was a lawman in the Wild West, an expert with a gun and was shot in the back in Deadwood, SD while playing cards.
Who was Wild Bill Hickok ?
These schools were set up in the Eastern part of the US to re-educate specific children in American ways. These schools ended up destroying a culture and causing more problems than they helped.
What are Indian Boarding Schools?
This invention allowed for faster communication between capitols and armies and led to the elimination of the Pony Express.
What is the telegraph?
I was an Apache leader and the last Native American to surrender to the US Army. I was allowed to sell my pictures and autobiography to help support my family.
Who is Geronimo?