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Who's Who of the Civil War
Battles
Daily Life
Quotes and Events
After the War
100
I was assinated at the Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth
Who is President Lincoln
100
At this battle, Stonewall Jackson earned his name for standing his ground and urging his men to stand and fight instead of retreating. Because they stood their ground, more Confederate Soldiers arrived and the South won this battle.
What is the Battle of Bull Run.
100
Early in the War, who won most battles because they were fighting of familiar territory?
What is the South?
100
Fredrick Douglas called for a "fly to arms" urging African Americans to fight with the North after Abraham Lincoln issued this statement, declaring the goal of the Civil War to be to end Slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This was the amendment to abolish slavery.
What is 13th amendment?
200
When the southern states seceded, they nominated me to be their president because of my experience in war, my political career, and my education at West Point.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This was known as the single bloodiest battle in the Civil War, more than 23,000 casualities at this battle. This was one of the first battles we hear of Robert E. Lee leading his men at even though he was against slavery.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
Because many soldiers were tired, upset about not getting paid, and tired of seeing death. Both the North and the South had to start this in order to get soliders.
What is the Draft?
200
During this 2 minute speech, Lincoln urged soliders to not let the men that died at Gettysburg to die in vain, instead continue to fight for the end of slavery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
This amendment gave African American Men the right to vote.
What is 15th amendment?
300
After the battle of Gettysburg, my men and I were later surrounded, I was forced to surrender and was quoted as saying, "I would rather die a thousand deaths.."
Who is Robert E.Lee?
300
Along with more accurate rifles that could shoot straighter and at greater distances, this type of techonology helped transport soldiers and supplies to the battle front quicker than in previous wars.
What is the railroad?
300
During the war, many women went to work in place of their husbands, became nurses for the war, and did this type of job like the infamous "Belle Rebelle"
What is become spies?
300
During this time, Sherman wrote a letter to Lincoln saying " I present you a Christmas gift..the city of Savannah." Many thought this campaign of destruction was making the North look like the bad guys or villians. this is what they named what Sherman was doing.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea.
300
After Lincoln's assination, Andrew Johnson went ahead with the reconstruction or the rebuilding of the nation, after the 13th amendment was passed, the Southern states passed this, stating that African Americans could not own guns or land, take certain jobs, or had to work or they would be arrested or fined.
What is the Black Codes?
400
I was a General for the Union, and led my men into many successful battles. I fought alongside Robert E. Lee, and treated him and his men fairly after he surrendered to me at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
At Fort Wagner in South Carolina, this regiment of African Americans proved to the North that they had the ability to fight in this war. Because of their bravery during this battle and and many others, a year later African Americans began getting paid to fight.
What is the 54th Regiment?
400
Even with more accurate weapons making killing or wounding other soldiers easier, this was the number 1 killer during the Civil War.
What is disease?
400
The Anaconda Plan had three goals. What were they?
What is a naval blockade, send troops down the mississippi river to cut the nation in two, and to come from East and West and squeeze inward.
400
This was established to develop schools and build hospitals for African Americans in the South. This also hired teachers from both the North and South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
500
I ruled over the Dred Scott Case. When Dred Scott fought for freedom, stating he had lived in free states, before his master died in Missouri (a slave state), therefore, he should be free. I ruled that he was not free, and had "no rights" because he was an African American.
Who is Chief Justice Roger Taney?
500
After battles when thousands lay wounded this "Angel of the Battlefield" would care for soldiers and nurse them back to help. She later organized the Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
500
After Sherman's March to the Sea, people, not just soldiers, lost the "will to fight" because of this type of war that Sherman led in the South.
What is total war?
500
After this Grant, told his men "The war is over, the rebels are our countrymen again."
What is the surrender at Appomattox Court House?
500
These laws were passed to enforce segregation. This is where African Americans and White people could not eat at the same places, sit on trains together, attend theatres and schools, and also led to sharecropping- where they rented land from landowners and paid them with their crops.
What is the Jim Crow Laws.