Civil War Battles
This battle, a northern victory, is considered the turning point in the Civil War. It's also an important Civil War primary source document.
What is Gettysburg? (the Battle of Gettysburg/Gettysburg Address)
Amendments are revisions or laws added to the _________________.
What is the Constitution?
Lincoln's original plan for Reconstruction in the South
What is 10% Plan?
These people worked as farmers on former plantations but were not paid wages in cash money so they could never make a real profit
What are sharecroppers?
This person was the 16th President and signed the Emancipation Proclamation Act.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle marked the bloodiest single-day in US military history, resulting in 23,000 casualties.
What is Battle of Antietam?
A law ending slavery
What is the 13th amendment?
Government agency responsible for administering reconstruction policies in southern governments, such as schools, housing, and food
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
Most people died from _________ during the Civil War
What is disease?
This person assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Boothe?
Gen. Grant secured Union control of this river with this northern victory, the siege of Vicksburg.
What is the Mississippi (River)?
A law that made all former slaves citizens and gave them the rights of life, liberty, and property
What is the 14th amendment?
Name the new Union state admitted into the United States as a free state during the Civil War.
What is West Virginia?
This slave led an armed rebellion before the Civil War in Virginia
Who was Nat Turner?
This person became the 17th President and believed blacks should be free but were not equal to whites.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A Union victory where this key city in Georgia was completely burned and destroyed by General Sherman (and Mrs. Catanzaro's great-great-great-great-great Grandpa Boswell)?
What was Atlanta?
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
President Andrew Johnson would not work with Congress to they tried to ___________ him.
What is impeach?
Unfair poll taxes and literacy tests were started to keep African Americans from enjoying this right of citizenship
What is voting?
This person became the 18th President and gave amnesty to Robert E. Lee's army at the end of the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Civil War officially began when this Federal fort in Charleston's Harbor in South Carolina was attacked by Confederate forces.
What is Fort Sumter?
A law that gave all citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th amendment?
The year of this controversial presidential election formally ended Reconstruction.
What is 1877?
This president won the "fraudulent election" and earned him the nickname "Rutherfraud"
Who is Rutherford B. Hays?
This group of people thought Lincoln's reconstruction plan was too slow and too lenient and too limited so they worked against him in Congress
Who were the Radical Republicans?