Period Presidents (1850-1877)
This first Republican President oversaw the Civil War and was also the first American President to be Assassinated.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Marking General Lee's farthest northern advance, this battle was a loss for the Confederacy and a turning point of the Civil War. Now it serves as a national cemetery to honor our nation's fallen soldiers
What is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
This Amendment ended slavery once and for all in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
These racists were mostly composed of former Southern Confederates and largely enforced an illegal, racial hierarchy system throughout the South during Reconstruction.
Ku Klux Klan
Which of these would LEAST aid Rutherford B. Hayes as a Presidential candidate in the 1876 Presidential election?
1.) He served two terms as a senator
2.) He was from the politically important swing state of Ohio
3.) He had no controversial or polarizing opinions
4.) He had served as a Union general in the Civil War
1.) Though Hayes served as a two term senator, this election was racially charged and centered on the continuance or ending of Reconstruction.
After serving as a Union General in the Civil War and leading the siege of Vicksburg, this man would become our President from 1869 until 1877
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This Maryland battle saw the single bloodiest day of fighting in the Civil War. Taking place in Maryland on 9-17-1862, the battle mostly resulted in a stalemate, though the Confederacy could not replenish troops as well as the Union. George McClellan's decision not to pursue Lee's army after this battle would later result in his replacement with General Burnside
What is Antietam?
Taken together, which amendments restored African American rights throughout the United States between 1865 and 1870?
What are the Reconstruction Amendments (or Civil War Amendments), 13, 14 and 15?
Because of opposition to enforcement of the Reconstruction Amendments, Reconstruction included the United States dividing the Southern United States into Federal (these), numbered regions where American troops were enforcing equal rights and access laws
What are Federal District?
Samuel Tilden (Democrat) will accept defeat in the election of 1876, as long as Rutherford Hayes (Republican) promises to do what....that will signify the end of Reconstruction and give Democrats control of the South
Remove federal troops from the South
This man would become the first and only President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865
Who is Jefferson Davis
With a two minute speech given at the site of this decisive battleground, President Lincoln invoked our nation's founding...immortalizing the phrase "four score and seven years ago". Though it was intended to only house the Union dead, at least 7 Confederates are believed to be interred here.
What is Gettysburg?
This amendment granted black males full voting rights, though black codes and intentionally racist poll-taxes and literacy tests would continue to restrict the African American vote for generations throughout the Deep South.
What is the 15th Amendment?
While the Southern economy relied on agricultural exports, the Civil War increased this economic advantage among Union states?
What is industrialization?
This man would become one of the few American Presidential candidates to win the popular election but not the electoral college. Running as a Democrat, he would lose the disputed election of 1876 to (R) Rutherford B. Hayes as part of the Compromise of 1877.
Who is Samuel Tilden?
At this Virginia Court House, Generals Lee and Grant met for the first time. Lee would agree to Grant's generous surrender terms and end the Civil War
What is Appomattox, VA?
The Freedmen's Bureau assisted the South by building African-American schools and aided poorer white Southerners in efforts to rebuild and empower the South after the devastation of the Civil War. Which extremist political party most supported this bureau's initiatives?
Who are the Radical Republicans?
Southern disadvantages with what two novel transport and communications technologies granted the Union a strong upper hand related to troop mobility and direct communications?
What are rail and telegraph logistics?
Clashing with Radical Republicans throughout Reconstruction, this President served from 1865 until 1869. During his tenure, he would be impeached by Radical Republicans for his constant use of veto powers against Radical Republican initiatives and for violating the Tenure of Office Act
Who is Andrew Johnson?
After months of siege, shelling, and forced starvation, the once wealthy citizens of this Mississippi city were reduced to living in caves and eating rat and mule meat before finally surrendering to General Grant, the realizing the final piece of the Union's Anaconda Plan
What is Vicksburg, MS?
With the Freedmen's Bureau pushing for improved black (and poorer white) literacy and job training, groups like the KKK and Southern Democrat policies mostly indicate that America was not done with issues of this type, mainly associated with the color of one's skin.
What is race / racism?
Momentum from a victory at Fredericksburg would BEST lead General Lee to which of these results during the Civil War?
A.) The South's surrender at Appomattox
B.) The South's victory at Chancellorsville
C.) General Grant's victory at Vicksburg
B.) The South's victory at Chancellorsville