Civil War Battles
This side won the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is the Union?
In his second inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln said, "With malice toward" them.
What are none? The quote was, "With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan ~ to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations."
The video mentions this dream that Abraham Lincoln apparently had.
What is that there was a body, he asked who was dead, and they said the President?
This is the year that Reconstruction ended.
What is 1877?
In 1870, Ulysses S. Grant supported the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, which did this.
What is grant African American men the right to vote?
This is the battle in which the person in the video mentions that the Union did a surprise attack on Confederate troops in the morning. As the Confederate troops thought they were far enough away from Union troops, these Confederate troops camped.
What is the Battle of Moorefield?
The war started badly for the Union side, but Union generals, such as Sherman, Sheridan and Ulysses S. Grant are credited for this in the video.
What is for turning the tide in the Union's favor?
The video mentions this as a first concerning Mary Surratt.
What is that she was the first woman who the U.S. government sentenced to death?
The video mentions President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policy toward the South in this way.
What is very lenient?
The video credits this for Ulysses S. Grant winning the election to become the 18th President of the United States.
What is his military career?
In this battle was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The videos mentions this as Abraham Lincoln's response to the criticism of him telling jokes.
What is that he must laugh to keep from crying?
On April 11, 1865, in his speech out the window of the White House, President Abraham Lincoln advocated for this for some African Americans.
What is the right to vote?
The video mentions that all Southern whites except for wealthy land owners and Confederate leaders received these.
What are blanket pardons for secession?
The video mentions this educational institution that Ulysses S. Grant went to, in which his name was incorrectly listed as Ulysses S. Grant, but that name stuck.
What is the U.S. Military Academy at West Point? With his new U.S. initials, other cadets called him Uncle Sam.
The video mentions that President Abraham Lincoln announced the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in the aftermath of this battle.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The video mentions that in the celebration in Washington after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered that Abraham Lincoln asked the band to play this song.
What is Dixie?
The video mentions this happening to the person assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson, and he did not assassinate him.
What is that he got drunk and then got cold feet?
The video mentions that the second phase of Reconstruction, known as Radical Reconstruction, was led by this.
What is Congress? Those in Congress known as Radical Republicans led the second phase of Reconstruction.
The video mentions that during the Civil War that two of Ulysses S. Grant's horses gained fame, one named Cincinnati and the other with this name.
What is Jeff Davis? Ulysses S. Grant had captured the horse from the family of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
A video mentions the first land battle of the Civil War being in what is now this U.S. state.
What is West Virginia?
Abraham Lincoln's Democratic opponent as he ran for reelection in 1864, George McClellan, was previously in this Civil War position.
What is commander of the Army of the Potomac? George McClellan was the anti-war candidate in the 1864 presidential election.
This is the Secretary of State who was stabbed in this conspiracy to decapitate the government.
Who is William Seward?
The video mentions this person as being elected President and acknowledging and accepting Democratic control over the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
The video mentions Ulysses S. Grant as serving in nearly every battle in this war.
What is the Mexican-American War?