Key Events
When did the Civil War begin and end?
1861-1865
This battle, fought in July 1863, was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
He was the commanding general of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
The North’s economy relied on industry, while the South’s economy relied on this.
agriculture
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery.
13th Amendment
Abraham Lincoln issued this famous document on January 1, 1863.
Emancipation Proclamation
This was the first major battle of the Civil War, fought in July 1861.
Battle of Bull Run
This Confederate general was known as "Stonewall."
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Women played a major role in the war effort, including serving as nurses, such as this famous founder of the American Red Cross.
Clara Barton
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this man just days after the war ended.
John Wilkes Booth
The Civil War officially began when Confederate forces fired on this fort.
Fort Sumter
The Union gained control of the Mississippi River after this battle in 1863.
Battle of Vicksburg
He was the Confederate Army’s most famous general.
Robert E. Lee
Many African Americans fought for the Union Army in regiments such as this famous one, featured in the movie Glory.
54th Massachusetts Regiment
After the war, the U.S. entered this period of rebuilding the South.
Reconstruction
This speech by Lincoln, given in November 1863, begins with "Four score and seven years ago..."
Gettysburg Address
This battle in September 1862 was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history.
Battle of Antietam
This Union general led the March to the Sea, using "total war" tactics.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This law, passed in 1862, gave settlers free land in the West if they farmed it for five years.
Homestead Act
Many former slaves and poor whites became farmers under this system, which often kept them in debt.
sharecropping
This was the name of the first submarine to sink an enemy ship in combat during the Civil War.
H.L. Hunley
General Sherman’s famous "March to the Sea" began after this battle in Georgia.
Battle of Atlanta
This Confederate general led a famous charge at Gettysburg.
George Pickett
The Confederate government struggled with this major problem, which caused food shortages and inflation.
lack of supplies or economic hardship
This agency was established to help freed slaves and poor whites in the South.
Freedmen’s Bureau