1. What term refers to the plan for rebuilding the South after the Civil War?

2. Reconstruction

3. What was the original reason that Lincoln joined the war?

4. Bring the Union back together

5. How do we remember the North’s strategy to win the war?

6. Chain – Saw - Seize

7. Whose plan for Reconstruction said state governments must be disbanded, states must write new constitutions, states had to ratify the 14th Amendment and allow African Americans to vote?

8. Radical Republicans

9. Who was the first president to be impeached?

10. Andrew Johnson

11. What amendment freed the slaves?

12. 13th Amendment

13. What was the name given to laws designed to limit the rights of blacks? The laws were passed immediately after the war.

14. Black codes

15. What was the political party of the conservative group in the South that didn’t want the South to change from how it was before the war?

16. Democrats

17. Voters had to pay a fee in order to vote.

18. Poll tax

19. Name 3 of the 4 S’s that were causes of the Civil War.

20. Sectionalism, states’ rights, slavery, secession

21. What was the name given to the government organization designed to help former slaves?

22. Freedman’s Bureau

23. What was the capital of the South for most of the war?

24. Richmond, Virginia

25. What did the chain stand for in the Northern strategy to win the war?

26. Blockade the South

27. What group’s goal was to break the power of rich southern planters?

28. Radical Republicans

29. What was another name for the North’s blockade? In other words, it was called the _____ Plan.

30. Anaconda

31. What economic problem did both the North and South have to deal with?

32. Inflation

33. What was it called when former slaves worked land and in return had to pay off a part of their crop and the cost of rent / seed in return? Most never made enough to pay off their debts.

34. sharecropping

35. People could vote if they could read and explain a section of the Constitution.

36. Literacy test

37. Group who used violence to harass freedmen.

38. Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

39. What happened virtually every time Andrew Johnson vetoed a bill passed by Congress?

40. Congress overrode the veto

41. What was the South’s strategy for winning the war?

42. Fight a defensive war until the North got tired of fighting

43. What did the saw stand for in the Union plan of victory?

44. Capture the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy in 2

45. What was the name given to southern Republicans who cooperated with Reconstruction?

46. Scalawags

47. What freed the slaves in area under Confederate control?

48. Emancipation Proclamation

49. What was the name given to the first battle of the Civil War?

50. Bull Run

51. Where did General Lee surrender?

52. Appomattox Courthouse

53. Who proposed the 10% Plan of Reconstruction?

54. Abraham Lincoln

55. What battle did U.S. Grant win to gain the Mississippi River for the North?

56. Vicksburg

57. What amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?

58. 15th Amendment

59. How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the focus of the war?

60. Added freeing slaves to the goals of the war

61. Why was the South fighting the war?

62. To save the “Southern way of life” which included slavery

63. Name given to former slaves.

64. freedmen

65. What was it called when the north destroyed everything in its path?

66. Total war

67. What did the Seize stand for in the Union plan of victory?

68. Capture Richmond

69. What plan of reconstruction said that a person could not participate in government if they volunteered for the Confederate army?

70. Wade –Davis Bill

71. What famous African American unit fought courageously at Fort Wagner, South Carolina?

72. 54th Massachusetts

73. What term means the legal separation of the races?

74. segregation

75. A person could vote if their father or grandfather had voted.

76. Grandfather clause

77. What was the job of African American soldiers at the beginning of the war?

78. Laborers only – they were not allowed to fight

79. Whose plan of reconstruction said that a majority of people had to pledge loyalty to the United States and states had to ratify the 13 th Amendment?

80. Andrew Johnson

81. Whose soldiers were called the Rebs?

82. South

83. What term refers to the idea that some states believed their interests were more important than the issues of the nation as a whole?

84. States’ rights

85. Was Andrew Johnson removed from office when he was impeached?

86. No

87. What battle was known as the turning point of the Civil War?

88. Gettysburg

89. Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner belonged to which political group.

90. Radical Republicans

91. Before the Civil War, which section of the country was most for states’ rights?

92. South

93. In Lincoln’s plan of slavery, what did the southern governments need to get rid of?

94. slavery

95. What was the name of the most famous iron-clad battle?

96. Monitor vs. Merrimack

97. Northerners who came to the South during Reconstruction for their own personal benefit?

98. carpetbaggers

99. What northern general used total warfare in his “march to the sea”?

100. General William T. Sherman

101. What amendment made former slaves citizens?

102. 14th Amendment

103. What was the goal of total war?

104. Destroy the South’s will to fight

105. What laws kept African Americans from gaining political and economic power immediately after the war was over?

106. Black codes

107. How many slaves were freed immediately by the Emancipation Proclamation?

108. Zero – Confederate states didn’t consider Lincoln their president and didn’t listen to him so zero

109. Who was the most famous Confederate General?

110. Robert E. Lee

111. Where did the first shooting of the war happen?

112. Fort Sumter, South Carolina

113. Laws which segregated blacks and whites.

114. Jim Crow Laws

115. Supreme Court case which made segregation legal if facilities were equal.

116. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

117. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation officially enacted?

118. January 1, 1863

119. Which army had the advantage of fighting mostly on their homeland?

120. South

121. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

122. John Wilkes Booth

123. Who won the battle of Gettysburg?

124. North

125. Whose army fought most of the war in enemy territory?

126. North

127. What term means a strong sense of loyalty to a state or nation?

128. sectionalism

129. Who made the Gettysburg Address?

130. Abraham Lincoln

131. Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

132. Jefferson Davis

133. Who was the most successful Union General?

134. Ulysses S. Grant

135. Sharecropping was very similar to what?

136. slavery

137. In what year was the Gettysburg Address made?

138. November 19, 1863

139. Which army was known as the Federal Army or Billy Yanks?

140. North

141. Which side had more industry before the Civil War?

142. North

143. Which side had more slavery before the Civil War?

144. South

145. What said the Civil War was a test of whether a democratic government could survive?

146. Gettysburg Address

147. In what year was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

148. 1865

149. Which side had a larger population before the Civil War began?

150. North

151. Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?

152. Abraham Lincoln

153. Who was elected president in 1864?

154. Abraham Lincoln

155. Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?

156. Ford’s Theater

157. General Lee surrendered soon after this city was destroyed?

158. Richmond, Virginia

159. Who was afraid of competition from freedmen?

160. Poor in the South and factory workers in the North

161. What year did the Battle of Gettysburg take place in?

162. July, 1863

163. Which army had a better navy when the war began?

164. North

165. Who made the Emancipation Proclamation?

166. Abraham Lincoln

167. What was the capital of the North?

168. Washington D.C.

169. In 1866 Congress passed the Civil Rights Act granting citizenship to African Americans. What amendment did this create?

170. 14th Amendment