Civil War/Reconstruction

People

100

The person who led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Harriet Tubman

200

This person was the most successful Northern general in the Civil War.

Ulysses S. Grant

300

This person was the most successful Southern general in the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee

400

This person was the president of the Union during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln

500

This person was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Jefferson Davis

People

100

This person wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which spoke about the cruelty of slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

200

This person, known for his strength, led the Confederates during the First Battle of Bull Run.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

300

This person was an escaped slave and published an abolitionist newspaper called "The North Star"

Frederick Douglass

400

This abolitionist tried to start a slave rebellion by taking over a U.S. weapons building in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. 

John Brown

500

This person wrote both the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Henry Clay

Battles

100

This battle helped the Union take control of the Mississippi River and cut the South in half.

Battle of Vicksburg

200

This early Civil War battle started when Southern troops attacked a U.S. fort, marking the beginning of the war. 

Battle of Fort Sumter

300

This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in American History, and it encouraged Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation

Battle of Antietam

400

This is where the Confederacy surrendered to the Union

Appomattox Courthouse

500

This battle was the deadliest battle in American History and was a turning point for the Union that helped them win the war

Battle of Gettysburg

Events

100

This speech by Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves only in the Confederacy

Emancipation Proclamation

200

What were the two parts of the Compromise of 1850?

1. California became a free state 

2. Fugitive slave act

300

This court case ruled that slaves had no legal rights and were considered property

Dred Scott v. Sanford

400

This act allowed settlers to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery in new territories

Kansas-Nebraska Act 

500

These laws restricted the freedoms of the formerly enslaved during Reconstruction

Black Codes

Reconstruction

100

This amendment gave citizenship to African Americans born in the United States.

14th amendment

200

This amendment ended slavery in the U.S.

13th Amendment

300

This amendment granted the right to vote to all male citizens

15th amendments

400

This group of people had very different ideas about Reconstruction than President Lincoln (They felt Lincoln's plan was too lenient to the once Confederate States)

Radical Republicans

500

This government organization was created to help formerly enslaved people after the war, which provided food, clothing, education, and jobs.

Freedmen's Bureau