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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, 14th, and 15th 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?