Coat Hook Dates
Columbus discovers America
1492
Which civil war battle had the most casualties?
Antietam
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Rebellion where an enslaved man garnered support from other enslaved people and killed 55 Virginia White people because they believed God wanted Black people to be free!
Nat Turner Rebellion
First black Congressman in the US
Protestant Reformation
1517
Who won the Battle of Chancelorville and what did the winner do to the loser?
Confederacy, thousands of Union soldiers were taken as POWs
Which president tried to keep the US from having a civil war in the 1850s?
James Buchanan
Boats the Confederacy wanted from England and France to beat the Union Navy?
Ironclads
Plessy V Ferguson codified_______________
seperate but equal
Boston Tea Party
1775
Who sacked the confederacy as he marched his men to the sea?
General William Tecumseh Sherman
Who was Homer Plessy? What is the significance of his story?
citizen of Louisiana who was arrested for being 1/8 black in a "whites only" train car, lost the famous Plessy v. Ferguson supreme court case which was a huge setback for African Americans in reconstruction.
Describe the battle of Fredricksburg
Confederate victory. The Union Army of the Potomac suffered more than 12,500 casualties. Lee's Confederate army counted approximately 6,000 losses.
What group of people did the "grandfather clause" help?
uneducated white people
George Washington's Presidency
1789 - 1797
What was the series of battles and war plans that the Union employed to strangle the South in the Civil War?
Anaconda Plan
Lead confederate general who fought in the north?
Robert E. Lee
What were the 3 main reasons for the Civil War?
States right
Slavery
economic difference between North and South
Who was the first Black millionaire?
Madam CJ Walker
Reconstruction
1863-1877
Why is the Battle of Gettysburg famous, who won it and how was Lincoln involved in the immediate aftermath of the battle?
Union victory but huge loss of life, Union, Lincoln travelled there and delivered the 272 word Gettysburg address.
18th President of the United States?
Ulysses S. Grant
which side fired the first shot at Fort Sumter?
Confederacy
describe the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments
free enslaved people
citizenship, and due process
voting rights Black men