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Leading
up to the War
Important
People
Major
Battles
End of the War and Effects of the War
Constitutional Amendments
100
The book and it's author stirred up alot of emotions about the cruelty of slavery. It helped many understand that slavery was wrong. [name the author and book]
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
This man was a lawyer and representative from Illinois. Although he wasn't immediately against slavery he eventually pushed to have no slavery in the new states and territories. When he was elected president in 1860, it caused states like South Carolina to secede, or withdraw, from the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces attacked this military post at Charleston, South Carolina. Union forces surrendered the next morning, but it was the start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This is where Confederate Army General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Genereal Ulysses S. Grant in April of 1865.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
100
The president immediately following Lincoln, did not like the Fourteenth Amendment because he thought it took away rights from the states. Andrew Johnson used this presidential power to try and stop the amendment, but was overrode by a 2/3 majority of Congress.
What is veto?
200
A person that wanted to end slavery was called this
What is an abolitionist?
200
He was conflicted about which side to be on when the Civil War began. He was a commander and General for the Confederate Army and surrendered to Grant at the end of the war.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
200
From July 1-July 3, 1863 the bloodiest battle took place in this part of Pennsylvania. Over 51,000 men were killed, wounded, missing, or captured. The Confederate Army never recovered and never invaded the North again.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
The period of time after the Civil War were the south was destroyed and people were very poor.
What is Reconstruction?
200
The 14th amendment granted this to recently freed slaves.
What is citizenship?
300
On October 16, 1859, this man and a group took over Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. They wanted to seize weapons and give them to slaves in order for them to rebel against their owners, but were captured.
Who was John Brown?
300
The representative and senator for Mississippi who became the president of the Confederacy. He ordered the attack on Fort Sumter.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
The deadliest American War to date. More that 260,000 southerners and 360,000 northerners were killed or injured.
What is the Civil War?
300
Although it didn't provide everyone with the same rights, the 13th amendment granted this.
What is provided freedom slaves?
400
When the people of a state were allowed to decide if it was a free or slave state it was called this.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
He was a general for the Confederate Army that led to a lot of victories. He was shot by his own men at Chancellorsville and after his death the Confederate Army suffered a lot of defeats.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
With orders from General Grant, this man set out in May 1864 to take this major city in the south. With over 110,000 men, he was able to capture it by September 2.
Who is Genereal William Sherman and the Atlanta Campaign?
400
Congress created this to help the poor whites and newly freed slaves after the Civil War. It set up schools and gave out medical care, food, and clothing. They also helped reunite formerly separated enslaved families.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
400
This amendment expanded the right to vote to include African American men. Women of any race were still not allowed to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
A belief that many people in the South held. They believed that each state should be allowed to decide about things like slavery and commerce. This was called ___ ___.
What is states' rights?
500
The General in Chief of the the Union Army that help lead them to victory. He ordered Sherman's March and Sheridan's destruction of the farmland in the south. Later, he was elected president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
This campaign destroyed, looted, and burned homes, railroads, farms and fields from Atlanta to Savannah and then up Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina. It crippled what was left of the south.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
500
A usually unfair agreement, where the land owner lent the worker a place to live and provided them with tools, seeds, and equipment to farm. Once harvested the landowner was to split the profit.
What is sharecropping?
500
States in the south would enact laws to try and limit the freedoms of African American's despite the Amendments that had been created. These laws kept blacks and whites segregated and unequal.
What are the Jim Crow Laws?