People To Know
The president of the Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This political organization helped African Americans learn about politics and supported Republican candidates.
What was the Union League?
These important medical jobs were performed by thousands of women during the Civil War.
What were nurses or aid workers?
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were sometimes called this.
What was scalawags?
This organization helped freed people with food, clothing, medical care, and legal assistance.
What was Freedmen's Bureau?
He surrendered the Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The number of African American men who served in the Union Navy?
What was about 20,000?
This woman later became the founder of the Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
Northerners who came South during Reconstruction were sometimes called this.
What was carpetbaggers?
This was one of the Freedmen's Bureau's greatest accomplishments.
What was creating schools?
He assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes booth.
Besides fighting, name one of the other jobs African Americans did for the Union.
What was laborer, scout, or spy?
This famous woman served as a spy for the Union.
Who was Harriet Tubman.
Under Andrew Johnson's plan, these people needed individual presidential pardons.
These laws placed severe limits on African Americans after the Civil War.
What were Black Codes?
He became president after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who was Andrew Johnson.
This happened to Black Union soldiers if they were captured by the Confederacy.
What was becoming enslaved?
What did many women manage at home while men were away fighting?
Farms, businesses, and households
This major economic crisis was dealt with unsuccessfully by Grant.
What was the Panic of 1873?
This farming system often trapped freed people in debt.
What was sharecropping?
He became the first African American U.S. Senator.
Who was Hiram Revels?
At first, how did the pay of Black soldiers compare with the pay of white soldiers?
Black soldiers were paid less.
How did some women secretly serve as soldiers?
They disguised themselves as men.
He became president as part of the Compromise of 1877.
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?
This violent organization rose during Reconstruction and fought against Black equality.
What was Ku Klux Klan or KKK.