Soldiers woke up every morning, had drills in the morning, and practiced battles during the day. Also had to cook meals, fix uniforms, and clean equipment.
What is a typical day?
100
Time period that immediately followed the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
100
Loyalty to a section instead of a whole country.
What is sectionalism?
100
Movement that focused on ending slavery?
What is abolitionism?
200
Battle between July 1 and July 3, 1863 where the Union defeated General Lee. Turning point in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
Doctors had very little knowledge of infection and barely washed their hands. As a result, many soldiers died of infections.
What are medical conditions?
200
An act passed by Congress in 1867, which divided the South into 5 military districts.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act?
200
In 1793 once the cotton gin got invented by Eli Whitney, making cotton more profitable in the South. As a result, the South depended on slave labor. The North, on the other hand had an industry-based economy.
What are economic differences?
200
Former slave that sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
What is Dred Scott?
300
Battle that happened between April 12 and April 14, 1861 and known as the start of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
300
Soldiers were mostly given crackers made from salt, flour, and water known as hardtack. Also got pork or corn meal on occasion.
What is a soldier's diet?
300
Gave most former Confederates the right to vote again. By 1876 the Democrats regained control of the South.
What is the Amnesty Act?
300
The right for people to create their own government.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
Order delivered by President Lincoln to free slaves in Southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Regarded as the bloodiest day in American history, 23,000 died.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
The average private in the Union was given $13 a month while a 3-star general was given $700 a month. Soldiers in the Confederate usually earned $11 a month.
What is a soldier's salary?
400
Northerners who came to the South after the Civil War ended.
Who were Carpetbaggers?
400
Many Southern states did this before the Civil War started?
What is secession?
400
Led 300 slaves to freedom via the Underground Railroad.
What is Harriet Tubman?
500
Known as the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
500
These people had worse conditions than soldiers and thousands of these died while being locked up.
What is a prisoner?
500
Act that required Southern states to ratify the 14th Amendment.
What is the Reconstruction Act?
500
Laws that controlled slaves and denied them basic rights and escape.