LEADERS & STRATEGY
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first major battle where the Confederacy won.
What is Bull Run?
Abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The overall goal of Reconstruction.
What is to reunite the Southern states with the Union?
Slave states that remained in the Union.
What are border states?
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Union victory that is considered the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
Granted voting rights to all men regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Lincoln and Johnson’s Reconstruction plan was considered…
What is lenient?
Northerners who moved South for political or economic gain.
What are carpetbaggers?
Lincoln’s primary goal at the start of the Civil War.
What is to preserve the Union?
Union victory that secured control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
Granted citizenship to all natural-born people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This organization was founded by Clara Barton.
What is the American Red Cross?
White Southerners who joined the Republican Party.
What are scalawags?
Union general known for the philosophy of “Total War.”
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
The most common medical procedure performed during the Civil War.
What is amputation?
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments referred to as?
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
This group used violence to prevent African Americans from voting.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
Economic system where tenants farm land in return for a share of crops—also called “Slavery 2.0.”
What is sharecropping?
This Union strategy included blockading ports, taking the Mississippi, and capturing Richmond.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Famous African American regiment that fought for the Union.
What is the 54th Massachusetts?
Reconstruction officially ended with this political deal.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
These laws attempted to restrict the rights of freedpeople in the South.
What are Black Codes?
The Southern narrative claiming the Civil War wasn't about slavery but “states’ rights.”
What is the Myth of the Lost Cause?