Civil War
General Lee's strategy was to march North and invade the Union on...
their own soil
The first battle of the Civil War.
Ft. Sumter
These three Amendments are known as the Reconstruction Amendments
13th, 14th, 15th
The separation of black people and white people was called this
Segregation
A result of Reconstruction was...
Jim Crow Laws
These were the names of the North and the South during the war
Union and Confederacy
The final major battle of the war and victory for the North.
Gettysburg
Name 3 examples of segregation due to the Jim Crow laws.
schools, water fountains, restrooms, restaurants, parks, buses
These were laws passed during Reconstruction to limit the freedoms of African Americans.
black codes
African Americans having to use different water fountains than white people. Is this an example of a Jim Crow Law or a Black Code?
Jim Crow Law - This was segregation
Place where General Lee official surrendered to the North.
Appomattox Courthouse
This was the name of the General that marched his troops through the south to Georgia and destroyed everything along the way.
Sherman
Provide 2 examples of a Black Code
Obey curfew, couldn't rent or own land, arrested for no job, couldn't serve on juries, could only work as servants or farmers for white families, couldn't testify in court
What did the 13th Amendment State?
That slavery was abolished
This was the day when all slaves in the country were officially free.
June 19
This key Union victory gave them control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
This battle resulted in the highest number of casualties in one day in the entire war.
Antietam
What did the 15 Amendment state?
It gave African Americans the right to vote
This was an unfair system where landowners allowed formally enslaved people to use land to grow crops. But they had to sell 2/3 of the crops back at the end of the harvest. Most ended in debt.
Sharecropping
What did the 14th Amendment state?
That every man born in the U.S. was a citizen (except Native Americans)
The first major Union Victory of the war.
Battle of Shiloh
His Battle plan was to keep marching forward.
General Ulysses Grant
This president of the Southern Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
These laws enforced segregation
Jim Crow Laws
The main goal of Reconstruction.
Rebuild the infrastructure