Important Figures of the Civil War
Confederate president that could not get the Confederate states to work together.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that evoked popular sympathy for slaves.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Fort Sumter?
The year the Articles of Confederation were ratified.
What is 1781?
White Republicans that came from the North as missionaries and entrepreneurs.
What are carpetbaggers?
General of the Confederate forces.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
A book written by Upton Sinclair, that exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry.
What is The Jungle?
Battle of the Civil War resulting in 23,000 casualties, referred to as the single bloodiest day of the war.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The year the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
Writers that investigated the conditions of corrupt, big businesses and provided accurate journalistic accounts.
What are muckrakers?
President of the U.S. during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Popular stories written by Horatio Alger about..
What is rags to riches success?
Battle that took place during the American Revolution from September to October 1777.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
The year president Thomas Jefferson purchased Louisiana from France.
What is 1803?
Southerners that wanted to promote the rebuilding of the South in cooperation the Republican Reconstruction governments.
What are scalawags?
Union commander that used the total war strategy.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper that was banned in the South.
What is The Liberator?
Battle where William T. Sherman burned down most the buildings in Atlanta?
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
The year the National Association of Colored Women was formed.
What is 1896?
Powerful entrepreneurs that monopolized huge industries to make fortunes.
What are robber barons?
Union general who burned most of the buildings in the city of Atlanta.
Who is William T. Sherman?
Official magazine of the NAACP, edited by W.E.B. DuBois.
What is The Crisis?
Battle in which the 54th Massachusetts regiment led a futile attack.
What is the battle of Fort Wagner?
The year Booker T. Washington established the Tuskegee Institute.
What is 1881?
People who worked during strikes or were hired in place of those striking.
What are scabs?