Civil War and Reconstruction

Civil War Figures

100

Republican presidential candidate in the Election of 1860.

Abraham Lincoln

200

Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia.

General Robert E. Lee

300

Commanded the Army of the Potomac at the Battle of Gettysburg.

General George Meade

400

This man went from commanding Western Union forces to being the General in Chief of the Army of the Potomac.

Ulysses S. Grant

500

During the "March to the Sea," this man embraced Total War in order to encourage the Confederacy to surrender.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Battles of the War

100

Bombardment of a federal fort in 1861 that began the Civil War.

Fort Sumter

200

First major battle of the Civil War

First Bull/ First Manassas

300

Ships that were mounted with iron plating.

Ironclads

400

Bloodiest single day of fighting in Civil War

Battle of Antietam/ Sharpsburg

500

Stonewall Jackson is accidentally killed

Battle of Chancellorsville 

Vicksburg and Gettysburg

100

Vicksburg was a Confederate stronghold stationed on this river.

Mississippi River

200

Vicksburg was taken by Union troops through this military strategy.

Siege

300

Lee's army was commanded at Gettysburg by Ewell, Hill and this gifted artillery commander.

James Longstreet

400

Lee's orders to puncture the Union center at "The Angle."

"Pickett's Charge"

500

Joshua Chamberlain and his Maine division were assigned to protect the Union flank on what height?

Little Round Top

Reconstruction

100

Death that led to a shift in Reconstruction Ideas.

Lincoln's Assassination

200

Four months following the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln roused his followers.

Gettysburg Address

300

Amendments that ended slavery, made it illegal for states to discriminate and gave black men suffrage.

13th, 14th and 15th Amendments.

400

Passed in 1866 to provide a Constitutional Amendment that protected freed slaves.

Civil Rights Act of 1866

500

Organization founded to provide food, clothing, medicine and education to freed slaves and poor whites.

Freedman's Bureau

Social Groups of Reconstruction

100

Northern Republicans who moved to the south to take advantage of politically weak southerners.

Carpetbaggers

200

Southern Republicans who took advantage of their southern neighbors.

Scalawags

300

Political organization that used terrorism and murder to prevent Black Americans from voting.

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

400

Northern Democrats who wanted a peaceful reunion with southerners.

Copperheads

500

This system of labor where the workers get to keep a portion of the profits of a harvest.

Sharecropping