The president of the U.S.
The president of the Confederacy
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Who is Jefferson Davis
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
The uniforms of Union and Confederacy were these two colors
What are the Blue and the Gray?
Ownership of human beings was the primary cause of the Civil War.
What was Slavery?
The first actual battle of the Civil War
What is Bull Run?
The war began this year and the war ended this year.
What happened in 1861 and 1865?
The military leader in charge of the whole Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Because Abraham Lincoln was assassinated this man succeeded in the presidency (became the new president).
Who is Andrew Johnson
The first major battle of the war was fought here
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
The 3 day battle in the North that was a big turning point towards the South losing the war since they lost 1/3 of their troops.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A part of the Anaconda Plan that prevented the Confederacy from trading.
What is a Blockade?
This battle gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
Forcing people into military service.
What was the draft? or conscription?
Lincoln's plan to readmit the former Confederate states to the Union was known as this.(how many had to take an oath?)
What was the Ten Percent Plan?
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
The bloodiest 3 day battle of the Civil War and a couple of months later the President spoke there.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The capital city of the Confederate States
What was Richmond, Virginia?
This declared slaves in rebellion states to be freed in an effort to deprive the Confederacy of its workforce
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
African Americans were more likely to vote for this political party.
Who were the Republicans?
The president at the beginning of the war and the president at the end of the war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The president of the United States impeached during Reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
He shouted "thus always to tyrants" after he shot the President.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
Robert E. Lee surrendered here on this date--Month and year
What happend in April 1865?
How many days after Lee's surrender was President Lincoln assassinated.
What is 5?
The idea that people should have the right to decided whether to be a slave or a free state.
What is Popular sovereignty?
In 1862, the battle between these two ironclad ships ended when neither side could destroy the other.
What were the Monitor and the Merrimack?
This 1863 document ended slavery and stopped European support in the South.
What is the emancipation proclamation?
This group was formed to help slaves transition from being slaves to being free citizens. It also helped them to get land, find their relatives and get an education
What was The Freedman's Bureau?
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman
Slave states that remained in the Union
The number of Union slave states
What were the border states?
What is 5?
This act strengthened a previous law and effectively made all people slave catchers.
What was The Fugitive Slave Act?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
Destruction of railroads, industries, homes and farms
What was "Sherman's March to the Sea?"
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
These laws were passed in the South after Reconstruction ended restricting the rights of African Americans. The North would later pass many of the same laws.
What are Jim Crowe laws?
The general who later became a president
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
The first shots of the Civil War were fired on Fort Sumter in this city
Where is Charleston, S.C.?
This is the supreme law of the United States, written by the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia in 1787.
What is the United States Constitution?
An organized secret society that used terror and violence against African Americans to keep them from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The event that is considered to be the turning point of the war
What is the Siege at Vicksburg?
The Southern supporter who became president after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These were put into place during Reconstruction to restrict former slaves in the southern states from being involved in politics, travel, or in the justice system.
What were Black Codes?