Battles & Strategies
This battle, fought in Pennsylvania in July 1863, was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This novel, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, exposed the horrors of slavery
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This U.S. amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This group used violence to intimidate African Americans and prevent them from voting.
Who were the Ku Klux Klan?
This Union military strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River to squeeze the Confederacy into submission.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The commanding general of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The group in Congress that wanted to punish the South and protect freedmen’s rights.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
Laws passed in the South to restrict the rights of freedmen after the Civil War.
What were Black Codes?
This battle, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in U.S. history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This former slave became a leading abolitionist and advised President Lincoln.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This organization was created to help newly freed slaves with education and employment.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This Supreme Court case established the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The capture of this Confederate city on July 4, 1863, gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
This compromise admitted California as a free state and created a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Confederate general earned his famous nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run for standing firm against Union forces.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
This Reconstruction plan required 10% of a state’s voters to swear loyalty to the Union.
What is Lincoln’s 10% Plan?
This system kept many freedmen in a cycle of poverty by forcing them to farm land for white landowners.
What is sharecropping?
This was the last major battle of the Civil War, where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Battle of Appomattox Court House?
This event in 1859 was an attempt by an abolitionist to start a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry.
What is John Brown’s Raid?
In 1870, he became the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi during Reconstruction.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
This political deal ended Reconstruction in 1877 and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law to all persons born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?