Civil War Battles

Which battle lasted three days and concluded with Pickett’s charge; became the turning point of the war in favor of the Union?

Gettysburg

Which battle did General Lee decide to send troops to attack the Union, instead of heading to help at Vicksburg going on at the same time?

Gettysburg

“. . . The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above  our power to add or detract.  The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here . . .”  Abraham Lincoln is talking about which soldiers?

the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Which battle was a huge Union loss at the end of 1862 and prompted the draft for the Union?

Fredericksburg

ALL of the following Civil War battles were victories for the Union Army, EXCEPT...

Fredericksburg

Which of the following was the significance of Vicksburg?

It gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and cut the South in two.

Lincoln fired two of his Generals (McClellan and Meade), after Antietam and Gettysburg for what similar reason?

They let the South retreat without a following attack.

Which battle marks the single bloodiest day in all of American military history?

Antietam

Which battle was a Union victory that prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?

Antietam

Which battle ended in a Union victory after a 48 day siege of this Confederate city?

Vicksburg

What event ended Reconstruction?

Election of 1876

What were Northerners called who went into the South during Reconstruction to make their fortune or to take advantage of military rule?

Carpetbaggers

What was the secret organization that arose during Reconstruction in the South to terrorize blacks and those who sought to give blacks more rights?

Klu Klux Klan

What was created by Congress in 1865 to help southern blacks and whites who were uprooted by the fighting become more educated or find jobs?

Freedmen’s Bureau

Which amendment to the Constitution extends the right to vote to all male citizens regardless of race or previous condition of servitude?

15th Amendment

Who were the people who worked land for a wealthy landowners and received a share of the crop which eventually placed these people significantly in debt?

sharecroppers

Which US Army General was elected as the President of the United States after the Civil War?

Ulysses S. Grant

What were the laws passed by Southern legislatures during reconstruction which were designed to regulate the affairs of freed blacks?

black codes

Which group used used Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests to regain control of the south?

southern redeemers

Which amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery everywhere in the United States?

13th Amendmant

Who was the first President of the United States to be impeached?

Andrew Johnson

Which amendment to the Constitution stated that every citizen has equal protection of the law? 

14th amendment

Which became the process for a state to re-enter the Union?

10 percent plan

Which amendment to the Constitution stated that anyone born in the USA is a citizen and a government can not deny citizenship based on race?

14th Amendment

Which person did not want black people to have equality after the Civil War?

Nathan Bedford Forrest