2MP 1-3/Causes of the Civil War
2MP 4-6/Civil War 1861-1863
2MP 7 - The Second Biggest Fourth of July
2MP 8 - Can Anyone Win This War?
2MP 9 - The Bloody Road to Richmond
Reconstruction (1865-1877)
100
Who attempted to lead a slave rebellion by stealing weapons at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
100
Who were the "Two Miserable Presidents"?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
100
What town became the site of the largest battle of the Civil War?
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
100
Which side in the war was struggling the most to produce food?
The South
100
Who took over for Grant in the West when he traveled to the East to lead the attack on Richmond?
William Tecumseh Sherman
100
Who were the two Presidents in the Reconstruction Era?
Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant
200
What "bleeding" state was the site of pro-slavery/anti-slavery violence before the Civil War?
Kansas
200
Which first major battle of the War convinced both sides it would be a long, hard-fought struggle?
Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
200
What was unique about the 1st Louisiana Native Guard?
It was the first Union Army unit made up of black soldiers.
200
How did Harriet Tubman serve the Union Army? (at least two examples)
Spy/guide, nurse, or cook.
200
Who challenged Lincoln in the Presidential Election of 1864?
George McClellan
200
Which Reconstruction amendment granted citizenship to former slaves?
The 14th
300
He sued for his freedom and his case went to the Supreme Court. When he lost, the Supreme Court announced that enslaved people are property.
Dred Scott
300
What did the Emancipation Proclamation order?
BONUS: Name the Union victory that gave Lincoln the clout to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.The freedom of all slaves in rebel territory; Antietam
300
What city was the South's last stronghold blocking the Mississippi River?
Vicksburg, Mississippi
300
What battle in the West set the stage for Grant to be promoted to commander of all Union armies?
Chattanooga
300
Who murdered Abraham Lincoln for supporting rights for newly freed former slaves?
John Wilkes Booth
300
What was a term for the laws designed to segregate or limit the rights of black Americans?
"Black codes" or "Jim Crow Laws"
400
Who escaped from slavery by train and went on to become a famous abolitionist? He helped support the Underground Railroad and traveled to speak about slavery in the U.S. and Europe.
Frederick Douglass
400
What were the three parts of the Union plan for victory?
1. Isolate the South
2. Capture the Conf. capital/Richmond
3. Capture the Miss. River/cut confederacy in two.
400
What year was the "second biggest fourth of July"?
1863
400
Lincoln promised a new birth of what at the Gettysburg address?
Freedom
400
Where did Lee surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant and the Army of the Potomac?
Appomattox Court House
400
What was the name of the agency designed to help former slaves and poor white southerners adjust after the war?
The Freedman's Bureau
500
List three advantages the North had going into the War.
More people, more factories, more ships, more railroad
500
Who won the battles every time the North attempted to invade Virginia? Name two examples.
Confederacy/the South: Bull Run (1861), Seven Days (1862), Fredericksburg (1862), Chancellorsville (1863), Wilderness (1864), Spotsylvania (1864)
500
Who led the Confederate charge on the third day of battle? It was a total disaster.
George Pickett (Pickett's charge)
500
What was the name of the first northern Army unit to be made up of African American soldiers?
The 54th Massachusetts
500
What state did Sherman make "howl" in 1864 as he destroyed anything the South could use to wage war?
Georgia
500
Which Reconstruction Amendment guaranteed the right to vote to all male citizens?
The 15th