Civil War People
The president of the U.S.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
Ownership of human beings, it was the primary cause of the Civil War
What is slavery?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secede? (officially leave the United States)
What was the freedmen's bureau?
What is an organization meant to assist with newly freed slaves?
The president of the C.S.A.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The collection of 11 Southern states that seceded
What is the Confederacy?
The movement to end slavery
What is abolition?
The bloodiest single-day battle of the war
What is Antietam?
Which Amendment freed the slaves?
What is the 13th?
He chose his home state of Virginia in working as a top Confederate general over the Union
Who is Robert E. Lee?
What was one major reason the Southern States seceded?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860?
This famous speech helped start healing the wounds of the Civil War for both the North and South
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The bloodiest 3-days in American history
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
What is sharecropping?
What is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop?
He became president after the Civil War
Who is U.S. Grant?
On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered in this settlement in a house owned by a farmer named Wilmer McLean
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This declared slaves in rebellion states to be freed in an effort to deprive the Confederacy of its workforce
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The War ended this year
What is 1865?
Which Amendment gave African Americans Citizenship?
What is the 14th?
Three of the 4 Union generals had a last name that started with this letter, though they are were unsuccessfully fired by President Lincoln
What is M? (McDowell, McClellan, Meade)
Who was the President that led Reconstruction?
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Sherman and Grant used this tactic of not only fighting the army, but destroying the civilian's ability to support the army
What is total war?
The War began this year
What is the 1861?
Which Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?
15th