Who's Who
President of the Union
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Everyone born in the U.S. is a citizen and must be treated equally
What is the 14th Amendment?
The Union decided not to charge the Southern leader with this crime.
What is treason?
When a person owns another person as property
What is slavery?
A person who is injured or killed in war
What is a casualty?
President of the Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Slavery is illegal
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Southern states did this to be readmitted to the Union.
What is rewriting their constitutions?
When a part of a country breaks off from its own country
What is secede?
An attitude towards something; a point of view
What is perspective?
Union Army General
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
A "solution" that ended up further dividing the lives of formerly enslaved people.
What is the building of segregated schools?
The name for the group of states that left the U.S. to form their own country, also called the South or the Confederate States of America
What is the Confederacy?
The murder of an important person
What is an assassination?
Confederate Army General
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Freed all enslaved people living in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Formerly enslaved people could work for pay on plantations.
What is sharecropping?
The name given for the states that remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War; also called the North or the United States of America
What is the Union?
The fact or process of being set free
What is emancipation?
Not a candidate in the 1860 presidential election.
Stephen A. Douglas, Jefferson Davis, John Breckinridge, Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Redefined the Civil War as a fight for freedom and equality, comparing it to the Founding Fathers' sacrifice.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Black males were given the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Viewed as property and had no legal rights.
What are enslaved people?
Two reasons people fought in the Civil War.
What is peace, self-defense, freedom for enslaved people, protecting rights, preserving the Union, obeying orders, preserving slavery for the Confederacy,