Civil War Review

Civil War People

100

President of the Union, elected in 1860

Abraham Lincoln

200

President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

300

Helped convince Lincoln to allow Black soldiers to enlist in the Union army

Frederick Douglass

400

Civil War Nurse and founder of the Red Cross

Clara Barton

500

Abolitionist and Union spy who lived in Richmond during the war

Elizabeth van Lew

Reconstruction

100

18th President, former Union general, leads the country through most of Reconstruction

Ulysses S. Grant

200

Became president after Lincoln's assassination, later gets impeached, but not removed from office

Andrew Johnson

300

Amendment that abolished slavery in the United States

13th Amendment

400

Event that brought Reconstruction to an end and brought about the election of Rutherford B Hayes

Compromise of 1877

500

Group that believed in guaranteeing voting and civil rights to African Americans after the war. Controls Congress through most of Reconstruction

Radical Republicans

Major Events

100

Robert E. Lee surrendered here in 1865

Appomattox Court House

200

First state to secede from the Union

South Carolina

300

Lincoln plan that would allow southern states back into Union when 10% of voters pledged an oath of allegiance to the Union

Ten Percent Plan

400

What happened on April 14, 1865, only five days after the Confederates surrendered?

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

500

Civil War military campaign that goes through Georgia, following a scorched earth policy (burn/destroy everything in its path)

Sherman's March to the Sea

Civil War Misc.

100

Capital of the Confederacy

Richmond

200

First Black Naval Captain and later a Congressman from SC

Robert Smalls

300

This holiday commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States

Juneteenth

400

Most common cause of death during the Civil War

Disease

500

Identify three of the northern advantages at the beginning of the war.

More railroads, better manufacturing, higher total population, better technology

Civil War Battles

100

This was both the turning point and largest battle of the Civil War

Battle of Gettysburg

200

First battle of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

300

First major battle of the Civil War

First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

400

Speech given by Lincoln a few months after the largest battle of the war at its location

Gettysburg Address

500

This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River

Battle of Vicksburg