Battles of the Civil War
This was the first battle of the Civil War when South Carolina fired on a Union Fort outside of Charlestown South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The 13th Amendment banned this immoral, evil, odious practice in the United States.
What is Slavery?
This group had to take care of family farms when soldiers went to fight.
Who are women?
Called slavery by another name this system kept poor Southerners trapped on plantations after the Civil War.
What is Sharecropping?
What is the Anaconda Strategy?
This major historical figure was the President of the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The 14th Amendment gave equal protection under this to all citizens regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender, etc.
What is "Under the Law"?
People on the Homefront had to deal with this issue of rising cost of goods and services.
What is inflation?
This government agency built hundreds of schools for black children after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack featured new naval technologies with ships being made of this material.
What is "Ironclad"?
This Union General gained infamy for his March to the Sea.
Who is William T. Sherman?
What is race?
The vast majority of the South’s population lived on this type of farm.
What are family farms?
Taken from a minstrel song this was the term for the segregated south.
What is Jim Crow?
First of two battles, called the Battle of Manassas by the Union, was called this by the Confederates.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This Confederate General marched his army from the Shenandoah Valley over the New Market Mt. (211) and into Northern Virginia.
Who is "Stonewall" Jackson?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved peoples in these limited aeras
What are Union occupied Confederate territories?
This city was the capital of the Confederacy and its citizens suffered from food shortages during the Civil War.
What is Richmond?
This group helped end reconstruction through violent white supremacist domestic terrorism.
What is the Ku Klux Klan? (KKK)
The most significant battle of the Civil War this battle was the highwater mark of Confederate advancement into the Union and the turning point of the conflict.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These Generals were the Supreme Commanders when one surrendered to the other at Appomattox Court House, VA.
Whom are Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant?
Abraham Lincoln's closing line of this address "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, will not perish from the earth" reinforced America's democratic values.
What is Gettysburg?
This is the term for an army burning barns and bushels of grain as happened to the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War.
What is "scorched earth"?
This state elected two black Senators during Reconstruction.
What is Mississippi?