Geography
The capital of the Confederacy.
Richmond.
The year that Lincoln became President.
1860.
The Civil War began in 1861 with this battle.
Fort Sumter.
Reconstruction is primarily concerned with this area of the United States.
The South.
Emancipation Proclamation.
The state that seceded from Virginia over the issue of slavery in 1861.
West Virginia.
The former general that contested the 1864 Election against Abraham Lincoln.
George McClellan.
The South won important battles in 1861-63 under the leadership of these two men.
Robert E. Lee & Stonewall Jackson.
This political party was the party of the South and aimed to re-instituted white supremacy.
Democrats.
Lincoln was assassinated by this Confederate supporter in 1865.
John Wilkes Booth.
The river which the Union captured with Grant's victory at Vicksburg in 1863.
The Secretary of State in the Lincoln administration.
William Seward.
This strategy saw the supplies of the South dwindle eventually contributing to its defeat.
The President who saw through the official end of the US Civil War.
Andrew Johnson.
Lincoln has often been criticised for acting unconstitutionally due to suspension of this right.
Habeas Corpus.
The Union used their superior navy to capture this important port city in Louisiana early in the war.
New Orleans.
Radical Republicans.
The first significantly bloody battle of the war that made the fame of Ulysses S. Grant.
Shiloh.
This change to the supreme law of the USA made slavery illegal (unless you were in prison).
13th Amendment.
Lincoln set out his vision for post-war America in this speech in 1865.
Second Inaugural Address
This state was the first to secede from the Union in December 1860.
South Carolina.
The diplomatic incident that threatened to bring Britain into the war on the side of the Confederates.
Trent Affair.
The capture of this city energised and secured Abraham Lincoln's re-election in 1864.
Atlanta.
This government organisation was in charge of supporting former slaves through education, legal representation, etc.
Freedmen's Bureau.
Under Lincoln's Reconstruction plan, how much of a states' white male population had to swear oaths of loyalty?
10%