Civil War and Reconstruction

1. Civil War and Reconstruction

2. 1. What happened when the Southern states seceded?

3. They broke their ties to the United States forming their own country, called the Confederate States of America.

4. 2. Who was president of the Confederacy?

5. Jefferson Davis

6. 3. What was the Confederacy?

7. The slaveholding states that seceded from the Union.

8. 4. What was Ulysses S. Grant’s major role in the Civil War?

9. General appointed to lead the Union army to victory

10. 5. He was the leading general of the Confederacy.

11. Robert E. Lee

12. 6. What is the name of the fort where the Civil War began?

13. Fort Sumter

14. 7. The Emancipation Proclamation declared that

15. enslaved persons in the Confederate states would be freed.

16. 8. What was the first battle of the Civil War fought on Northern soil?

17. The Battle of Bull Run

18. 9. This was where the surrender of the Civil War was signed.

19. Appomattox Court House

20. 10. What body of water is the Siege of Vicksburg near? • Why was the battle important to the outcome of the war?

21. The Mississippi River • Whoever won the battle controlled the river

22. 11. Abraham Lincoln

23. President of the United states during the Civil War • Gave the Gettysburg Address • Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation

24. 12. John Wilkes Booth

25. Assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

26. 13. Appomattox Court House

27. Where Lee surrendered to Grant ending the Civil War

28. 14. Reconstruction effected Texas how?

29. Texas had to write a new constitution in order to rejoin the Union

30. 15. The Freedman’s Bureau gave former slaves what advantage?

31. Economic independence

32. 16. How did the economy of Texas change after the Civil War?

33. It became a sharecropping based economy

34. 17. How were former slaves affected by the new Texas constitutions written after the Civil War?

35. It gave the male former slaves the right to vote.