Legislation & Politics
Abraham Lincoln's opponent in the 1864 election
George McClellan
turning point of the war
Gettysburg
What new national political party opposing slavery formed in the 1850s?
Republican Party
What word means before the war?
antebellum
Commander of the Union army during the Battle of Gettysburg
George Meade
pardoned former Confederates
Sherman called this city a Christmas gift to Lincoln
Savannah
What large territory did the United States acquire during the Johnson administration?
Alaska
What term denotes the time following the Civil War in which the nation tried to deal with the problems left by the war?
Reconstruction
The first president of the Confederate States of America was
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
10 Percent Plan
claimed the life of Stonewall Jackson
Chancellorsville
The first state to secede from the Union was
South Carolina
When a war targets civilians it is known as a
total war
What famous American nurse was known as the “angel of the battlefield”?
Clara Barton
Radical Republican plan for Reconstruction
Wade-Davis Bill
gave Grant the nickname “Lincoln’s butcher”
Wilderness Campaign
The state that was literally split in two by the Civil War was
Virginia
white Southerners who supported Reconstruction
scalawags
Who won the presidential election of 1868?
Ulysses S. Grant
guaranteed equality in public places without providing enforcement
Civil Rights Act of 1875
after this defeat the Union controlled the Mississippi River
Vicksburg
Divided the South into military districts
Reconstruction Act of 1867
What innovation kept Abraham Lincoln in close contact with his generals?
telegraph
Lincoln said of him, “I cannot spare this man. He fights.”
Ulysses S. Grant