Famous Battles
The Confederate attack on this federal fort in Charleston Harbor marked the start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter
He preserved the Union and used the war to end slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Lincoln
This 1863 executive order declared slaves in Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This 1865 constitutional amendment permanently abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment
This secret organization used violence, intimidation, and terror to prevent Black people from voting and exercising their rights during Reconstruction.
What is the KKK
Lee's surrender here on April 9, 1865, effectively ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House
His determination and strategy proved crucial to Union victory, and he became a national hero. (Head general of Union)
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant
This occurred in 1861 when 11 Southern states formed the Confederate States of America.
What is secession
This 1870 constitutional amendment prohibited states from denying voting rights based on race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment
These white Southerners supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, believing the South needed to rebuild with Northern help.
What are Scalawags
The Union victory here stopped Lee's invasion of the North and boosted Northern morale.
What is Gettysburg
Despite being outnumbered, he won many battles but ultimately could not overcome Union resources and manpower. Head general of the Confederacy
Who is General Robert E.Lee
This 1865 event took place when President Lincoln was attended Ford's Theatre. John Wilkes Boothe was also in attendance.
What was the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
This 1865 law established the Freedmen's Bureau to help formerly enslaved people with education, employment, and legal protection.
What is the Freedman's Bureau Act
Lincoln's lenient Reconstruction plan allowed Southern states to rejoin the Union if just 1/10 voters took a loyalty oath, but Congress rejected it as too easy.
What is the Ten Percent Plan
Though tactically inconclusive, the Union's ability to stop Lee's army gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. The bloodiest day of Civil War happened here.
What is Antietam
His aggressive tactics and total war strategy helped break the South's ability to continue fighting.
Who is General Sherman
This 1860 event prompted Southern states to secede, due to the results of this civil decision
What was the election of Abraham Lincoln
This 1868 constitutional amendment granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment
This vice president became president after Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865 and took a lenient approach to Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson
This 47-day siege gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and isolated the western Confederacy from the east.
What is Vicksburg
He struggled to unite the Confederate states and faced criticism for his military decisions throughout the war. (President of the Confederacy).
Who is Jefferson Davis
This period (1865–1877) involved rebuilding the South and integrating formerly enslaved people into American society.
What is the Reconstruction Era
This 1865 series of Southern laws restricted the rights and freedoms of formerly enslaved people.
What are the Black Codes
These Northern Republicans moved South after the war to take political positions and business opportunities during Reconstruction.
Who are Carpetbaggers