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The President of the United States when the Civil War began. He was the 16th.
This small town became a great battlefield as The Union Army tried to invade the state of Mississippi from the state of Tennessee.
Where/what is Shiloh, Tennessee?
This happened to Mrs. Grant when she was headed to Oxford to visit General Grant for Christmas.
This Presidential decree from Abraham Lincoln freed all of the slaves located in the states in rebellion against the Union, but not the border states, with slavery which still existed in the Union.
What was The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863?
The year the Capital of Mississippi was moved to Washington.
What was 1802?
What were Freedmen?
The former Senator from Mississippi who became the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This fortress city along the banks of the Mississippi River was the last great stronghold that the Confederacy held along the Mississippi River.
What/where is Vicksburg, Mississippi?
The Presidents during the Reconstruction Period, listed in order, were:
Who were Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and U.S. Grant?
The name of the U.S. Army Unit backed by black Mississippians?
What was The 3rd US Colored Calvary?
The year that Mississippi became a territory of The United States.
What was 1789?
To camp with little shelter.
What is to bivouac?
The commander of all Union forces in the state of Mississippi. After his victory at Vicksburg, he became the commander of the entire United States Military.
Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?
General Grant made this town his headquarters until he had to retreat back north to Memphis, because his supply lines continued to be cut off by Confederate cavalry raids.
What/where is Oxford, Mississippi? (Specifically, he took over Ole Miss.)
This is how long the siege of Vicksburg lasted.
What was 43 days?
This amendment to The U.S. Constitution abolished slavery in all states.
What is The 13th Amendment?
The dates (month, day, year) of The Civil War.
What was April 12, 1861, to April 9, 1865?
A pardon granted to a large group.
What is amnesty?
The 17th President of The United States. He became President when Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theater.
Who was President Andrew Johnson?
The city in Mississippi both Presidents Davis and Lincoln considered the, "Key to the Confederacy and the key to the Mississippi River?"
What was Vicksburg?
The capital of the Confederate States of America.
What was Richmond, Virginia?
Several organizations were formed during Reconstruction to discourage African Americans from attending school and to intimidate teachers. The most prominent group was/is named this.
The date of the founding of the United States as a nation.
What was July 4, 1776?
Yazoo Pass is also known as this.
What is Grant's Pass?
He was the highest ranking General in United States history to be killed in battle. He died at The Battle of Shiloh. President Jefferson Davis considered his death, "The turning point of our fate."
Who was General Albert Sidney Johnston?
y defeated him at the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee.
This was the town that General Grant's army was heading towards when the Confederate Army ambushed him and nearl
What was/is Corinth, Mississippi?
The war in which General Grant, General Johnston, and President Jefferson Davis served in before the Civil War.
What was the Mexican-American War: April 25, 1846 - February 2, 1848?
White Mississippians who joined the Republican Party and supported rights for blacks during the Reconstruction Period.
What were scalawags?
What was the Democratic Party's plan to win in the Mississippi elections of 1875?
These two railroads crossed in Corinth making it known as the "Crossroads of the South."
What were the Memphis to Charleston and The Mobile to Ohio?
He was the father of the Confederate General Richard Taylor and the father-in-law of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He was a general in the Mexican-American War and the 12th President.
Who was President Zachary Taylor?
The state that both Presidents Lincoln and Davis were from.
What was/is Kentucky?
The numerical order that which General U. S. Grant eventually became President and the years in which he served.
What was the 18th President who served between March 1869 and March 1877?
These were the two phases of Reconstruction in Mississippi.
What were The Presidential and Congressional Phases?
A carpetbagger.
Who was a Northerner who remained or moved to the South after the Civil War?
What was The Bruinsburg Landing?
The Confederate commander in charge of defending Vicksburg.
Who was Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton?
He was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
Who was Hiram Revels?
These are the three terms that General Grant gave to General Pemberton to surrender Vicksburg to the Union Army.
What were: 1) All troops were put on parole and told to return to their homes. 2) All troops agreed to sign an oath not to fight against the Union again. 3) Confederate officers were allowed to keep their sidearms and personal property, such as their horses.
This is the highest award for valor in action against an enemy force.
What is The Medal of Honor?
To disfranchise.
What is to take away the right to vote?
This diversionary cavalry raid was used to cause Pemberton to divert part of his troops in pursuit of Grierson while the Union Army destroyed railroad lines.
What was Grierson's Raid?
Name one prominent scalawag.
Who were: James L. Alcorn, Reuben Millsaps, Jehu Orr, and Robert Flournoy?
General Grant was stranded between these two rivers after his supplies were destroyed at Holly Springs.
What were/are the Tallahatchie and Yocona Rivers?
The main reason for President Andrew Johnson's impeachment.
What was his attempt to block the implementation of the Reconstruction Acts?
A siege is this.
What is a tactic where military forces surround a fort or fortified town and prevent it from receiving supplies?
The Redeemers.
Who were the Democratic leaders who planned and directed the Revolution of 1875?
These were the two phases of Reconstruction in Mississippi.
What were the Presidential and Congressional Phases?