Civil War Military Leaders
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia from 1862 to 1865.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Largest battle ever fought in America, ended the Confederacy chance for independence.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
A result of popular sovereignty, events in this territory are sometimes thought of as the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Kansas Territory?
A system popularized in the post-Civil War South that provided land on large estates to be farmed by primarily former slaves for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
This act by Congress passed during the Civil War greatly helped the settlement of the West.
What was the Homestead Act?
Abilene, Wichita, Caldwell, and Dodge City were examples of these.
What are cattle towns?
Lead the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Antietam, later ran for president of the United States in 1864.
Who was General George McClellan?
Single bloodiest day in American History, ended Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
Led by John Brown, a raid in this Virginia city created fear throughout the South.
What is Harper's Ferry?
State and local government laws designed to deny former slaves of their Constitutional rights.
What are Black Codes?
This name was given for the period after the Civil War till 1900 for the rapid economic growth but uneven distribution of national wealth.
What was the Gilded Age?
In Civil War battles, the area most armies wanted to hold.
What is the high ground?
Victor at Shiloh and Vicksburg, became leader of all Union armies in 1864.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
First major battle fought between the North and South, ended the North's hope for a quick victory.
What was First Manassas or First Bull Run?
This number one best selling book in the North helped the cause of abolishing slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A federal government agency created to help former slaves establish themselves with things like schools.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This state became the destination of most of the long cattle drives after the Civil War.
What is Kansas?
For many Americans, this brought the reality of the Civil War home.
What is photography?
Corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia, argued against fighting at Gettysburg.
Who is General James Longstreet?
Fought in the Spring of 1862 in Tennessee, the 23,000 casualties of this battle shocked the nation.
What was the Battle of Shiloh?
This senate race in Illinois received national attention because of these.
What were the Lincoln - Douglas debates?
An organization created in the South to prevent African Americans from practicing their Constitutional rights by way of violence and murder.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
Words like rodeo, corral, bronco, and lasso came from this American language and culture.
What is Spanish?
Jacob Riis, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair were examples of these.
What are Muckrakers?
Medal of Honor winner at the Battle of Gettysburg, wounded six times during the war, served four terms as governor of Maine after the war.
Who was Joshua Chamberlain?
Fought in the Spring of 1863, this battle is considered Robert E. Lee's greatest triumph.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
This Supreme Court decision stated that African Americans were and never would be United States citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
A deal made to elect Rutherford B Hayes president and withdraw the army out of the South thereby ending Reconstruction.
What was the Bargain of 1877?
This 1873 invention played an important role in ending the cattle drives and the open range.
What is barbed wire?
Brought to Kansas by immigrants from Russia such as the Mennonites, this helped develop agriculture on the prairie.
What was Red Turkey winter wheat?