Show:
Important dates
Union & Confederacy
Rights & Reconstruction
Facts
100
April 12, 1861
What is the beginning of the Civil War
100
Abraham Lincoln
Who was President of the Union?
100
These codes limited some of the rights of freedmen.
What was the Black Codes?
100
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
What was the location of the first shots of the Civil War?
200
January 9, 1861
What is the date Mississippi seceded from the Union?
200
General Robert E. Lee
Who was the general in charge of the Confederate Army?
200
The North wanted to rebuild the south and have them rejoin the Union during this time period.
What was Reconstruction?
200
The document that freed all enslaved people-- signed by President Lincoln.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
April 9, 1865
What is the date the Confederacy surrendered to the Union?
300
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the general in charge of the Union Army?
300
This was a way for freedmen and poor whites to live, work, and provide for their families.
What was sharecropping?
300
This means to pull away from or withdraw.
What is to secede?
400
1860
What is the year Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the Union?
400
This group fired the first shots to begin the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
400
This organization opened new schools for freedmen's children.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
Appomattox Court House
What was the location of the Confederate's surrender?
500
1863 **hint** important document
What is the year Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
Most of the Civil War took place in this region.
What is the South?
500
1877 ended an important time after the Civil War.
What was the end of Reconstruction?
500
four long years in the bloodiest war in history
How long did the Civil War last?