Civil War & Reconstruction

What attack on a Union fort started the Civil War in 1861

• Fort Sumter

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• Fort Ticonderoga

Better officers, defending their own homes, and not having to go on the attack were

• Union advantages
• reasons the Union won the battle of Antietam
• Confederate advantages
• reasons that the Confederacy won at Ft. Pillow

What was so special about "four score and seven years ago" mentioned in this speech?

• The first colonists settled America
• America was discovered by Christopher Columbus
• America gained its 50th state
• The Declaration of Independence was written and America gained its freedom from Great Britain

Which line from the Gettysburg Address is referring to the Declaration of Independence?

• Four score and seven years ago

• a new nation conceived in liberty

• dedicated to the proposition that all men are equal

Where did General Lee surrender for the Confederate Army?

• Fort Sumter, Richmond VA

• Appomatox Courthouse, Richmond, VA

• Gettysburg, PA

• Ford's Theater, Charleston, South Carolina

a white Southerner who supported Reconstruction 

• Scalawag
• Ku Klux Klan
• Radical Republican
• Reconstruction

a secret group of white men that used violence and terror against African Americans 

• Radical Republicans
• Ku Klux Klan
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Scalawags

a Republican who believed that Congress should direct Reconstruction 

• Ku Klux Klan
• Radical Republican
• Freedmen’s Bureau
• Slave

Insulting nickname for a Northerner who went South after the Civil War

• Yankee
• Carpetbagger
• Blues
• Yank

The Civil War was fought from 1861-1865

• True

• False