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The years during which the Civil War was fought.
When was 1861 – 1865?
First Shots of the Civil War were fired here.
Where is Fort Sumter?
The site where Lee surrendered his army to Grant’s
Where was Appomattox Courthouse, VA?
Turning point in the Civil War, the North turned back Lee’s northern advance and started to win major victories.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was the bloodiest battle ever fought on American soil. Union victory, Emancipation Proclamation issued afterwards.
What was the battle of Antietam?
President of the Union, was more concerned with holding the Union together than anything.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
General in command of the Army of Northern Virginia. Did not believe the Union should be held together by force.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Former slave who educated himself and became known as one of the most outspoken abolitionists.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Hard-drinking Union General who led the Union to victory when no one else could.
Who was General U.S. Grant?
Union General who led a campaign through the state of Georgia burning everything in his path.
Who was General W.T. Sherman?
Speech which said that all men were created equal and that our govt. should always be of the people, by the people, and for the people.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Document that ended slavery in the South while Southerners were at war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This man believed that the Confederacy was illegal in nature and had thus never existed
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Southern Democrat who became President in April of 1865.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Document that discouraged Europeans from joining the Southern Cause.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Amendment that officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13 th Amendment?
Period of American History where the South was rebuilt following the Civil War, From 1865 to 1877.
What was Reconstruction?
These two sections of America emerged from the Reconstruction Era with strong and growing industrial economies
Who are the North and the Midwest?
This section of America was severely stunted by Reconstruction efforts and remained a poor agricultural area.
What was the South?
Southerners agreed to give electoral votes to Hays during the 1876 presidential election in return for an end to Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877.
Amendment that forbid any state to deny civil rights to any American
What is the 14 th Amendment?
Amendment that guaranteed suffrage to all men, no matter their race or previous occupation.
What is the 15 th Amendment?
The name that came to stand for whites denying civil rights to blacks in the South.
What is Jim Crow?
This man assassinated President Lincoln and then jumped from the balcony out onto the stage and hobbled for his life.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Party that controlled Congress during and just after the Civil War. Hated slavery and wanted to get rights for freedmen.
Who were the Radical Republicans?