Presidential Personalities
This 16th President was "Abe-le" to keep the Union together despite a very "divided house."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Winfield Scott’s "hiss-terical" plan to squeeze the South was named for this constricting reptile.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This amendment "voted" for equality, ensuring the ballot box wasn't barred by race or color.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Congress passed these "Enforcement" Acts specifically to "force" an end to the terror and violence of this group.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Lee "courted" disaster before finally surrendering at this Virginia site with a legal-sounding name.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This former General, who demanded unconditional surrender, didn't grant much mercy on the battlefield, but as 18th President, he fought hard for the 15th Amendment.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
General Sherman used this "complete" strategy to destroy not just the army, but the South's resources and will.
What is Total War?
This amendment "ended the era" of slavery, officially "freeing" the Constitution of its biggest flaw.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This organization provided food and schools to those "freed" from slavery, a much needed if short lived service.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This village hosted this battle, which was the largest ever in North Carolina and the South’s last "big gasp" in 1865.
What is the Battle of Bentonville?
After Lincoln's "theatrical" exit, this VP took the stage, but his "Presidential" plan for the South was a bit too lenient for Congress.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This innovation gave the North a definitive edge against the South due to the logistical advantage it gave the Union, keeping their assault on the Confederates on track.
What are railroads/trains?
This amendment created our system of "Birthright Citizenship," meaning if you were born in the United States you are an American citizen.
What is the 14th Amendment?
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These monochromatic laws were meant to maintain a state of quasi-slavery in the South despite the march towards progress.
What are the Black Codes?
William Sherman tanked through the South and burned down this southern city, along with half the South's countryside and infrastructure.
What is Atlanta?
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Johnson found himself in a heap of trouble and became the first President to face this legal process.
What is impeachment?
Grant used this "grinding" strategy to wear down the South's limited manpower, essentially winning a "war of waiting."
What is a War of Attrition?
While the Reconstruction Amendments offered voting to more people than ever before, this group would have to wait for the 19th Amendment to get their right to vote.
Who are women?
These dudes weren't riding skateboards, but this group was considered radical in their attempts to stomp out Southern Resistance to the civil right movement?
Who were the Republicans?
This former US Senator and Secretary of War lead the Confederacy as their president, and was captured in 1865 and imprisioned for two years following the war.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
In 1877, this man moved into the White House after the deal to secure his presidency resulted in the "Great Betrayal" which pulled troops out of the South.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This city and Southern stronghold was key to controlling the Mississippi River, and it's fall in July of 1863 would cut the Confederacy in half.
What is Vicksburg?
The Reconstruction Amendments did a lot of things to even the playing field, including overturning this 1857 Supreme Court decision, which state black Americans were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
In the sharecropping system, the only thing farmers seemed to grow was a "mountain of debt" to the landowner, creating this kind of informal servitude.
What is debt slavery?
When federal troops packed up in 1877, this fowl era of segregation laws flew in for nearly a century.
What are Jim Crow Laws?