Transcript Civil War and Reconstruction

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Civil War
Events
Causes of
the Civil
War
Famous
Documents
After the
Civil War
Dates and
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The President of the United
States during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The commander of the Army of
Northern Virginia for the
Confederacy during the Civil War
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The president of the Confederate
States of America during the Civil
War
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The Union general who captured
Vicksburg and then won the Civil
War
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The African American who
escaped from slavery and
became a leader of the
abolitionist movement
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The first battle of the Civil War
in 1861
What is Fort Sumter?
Place where General Lee
surrendered to General Grant to
end the Civil War
What is Appomattox Court
House?
The only battle fought in the
North and a turning point in the
Civil War
What is Gettysburg?
The Northern victory in 1863 that
split the South into two parts
What is Vicksburg?
The killing of an American
President by John Wilkes Booth
in April, 1865
What is the assassination of
Lincoln?
The belief that states are
sovereign and have rights
independent of the national
government
What is states’ rights?
The act of a state leaving the
union of states of a country
What is secession?
The practice in the South of
forced labor of African Americans
What is slavery?
The support and loyalty to a
certain region of a country
What is sectionalism?
A tax or duty on an import to
protect a domestic industry of a
country
What is a protective tariff?
The document issued in
September, 1862 that freed all
slaves in areas of rebellion on
January 1, 1863
What is the Emancipation
Proclamation?
The speech President Lincoln
gave to dedicate a battleground
as a national burial site
What is the Gettysburg
Address?
The speech in which President
Lincoln called for an end to
slavery and a binding up of the
wounds of the nation
What is Lincoln’s Second
Inaugural Address?
The speech in which President
Lincoln said the North would not
interfere with slavery but would
preserve the Union by force
What is Lincoln’s First
Inaugural Address?
The name given to the 13th,
th
th
14 , and 15 amendments
What are the Reconstruction
Amendments?
The period from 1865 to 1877
after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Abolished slavery in the
United States
What is the Thirteenth (13)
Amendment?
Gave African American males
the right to vote
What is the Fifteenth (15)
Amendment?
The right to vote in an election
What is suffrage?
Granted citizenship to former
enslaved people
What is the Fourteenth (14)
Amendment?
The armed conflict between
different factions, groups, or
regions within a country
What is Civil War?
To be set free from bondage
What is emancipation?
Years when the Civil War was
fought
What is 1861-1865?
The belief that all people have
the same basic rights
What is equality?
The belief that the United States
is a permanent organization of
states
What is Union?