Turning Points
Largest battle of the Civil War
What is Gettysburg?
Prison with the highest death rate of the Civil War
What is Andersonville Prison?
Abraham Lincoln's running mate.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
What is the 10% plan?
Who is Edward Pollard?
Believed to be the "Gilbraltar of the West"
What is Vicksburg?
The originator of the Anaconda Plan.
Who is Winfield Scott?
Extreme conservative wing of the Democratic Party.
What is the Copperheads?
Andrew Johnson's favorite phrase in describing his hard scrabble childhood.
Who is Jubal Early?
What is the Richmond Bread Riot?
Believed in civilized warfare and "soft" war.
Who is George McClellan?
Nominee for the Radical Democracy Party.
The Radical Republicans' initial plan for Reconstruction in 1864.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
Women's organization still promoting the Lost Cause today.
What is the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)?
Partially caused by Irish-American resentment toward the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the NYC Draft Riot?
Partisan Ranger known as the "Grey Ghost."
Who is John Mosby?
McClellan's running mate in the election of 1864.
Who is George H. Pendleton?
Replacement for slave codes in postwar South.
What are Black Codes?
1915 movie that fueled the resurgence of the modern-day KKK.
What is "Birth of a Nation"?
Who is US Grant?
Border state with the most guerilla warfare.
What is Missouri?
Military campaign that helped Lincoln win reelection.
Reconstruction Amendment that continues to have the most relevance in our modern world.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Community organization first founded in Chicago that studies, discusses and promotes Civil War history among the public.
What are Civil War Roundtables?