Civil War and Reconstruction

Match the following

• Author of Uncle Tom´s Cabin

• Jefferson Davis

• A conductor for the Underground Railroad

• Hiram Rhodes Revels

• First African American Senator

• Harriet Tubman

• Main Union General

• Ulysses S. Grant

• President of the Confederacy

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Match the following

• Landowners gave a few acres of land to farm workers in exchange for a portion of their crops

• Reconstruction

• Agency established by Congress to help former slaves in the South

• Fourteenth Amendment

• African American Citizenship

• Freedmen´s Bureau

• Period of rebuilding the nation after the Civil War

• Fifteenth Amendment

• Banned states from denying African Americans right to vote

• Sharecropping

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes

The name given to army from the North.

• Confederates

• Americans

• Military

• Union

The name given to the southern army.

• Confederates
• Union
• Americans
• Military

This was the president of the Confederate States.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• Jefferson Davis

This was the President of the Union.

• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee
• Ulysses S Grant
• Abraham Lincoln

This battle was the turning point in the war.

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Appomattox Courthouse

This was the main economy of the Confederacy

• Agriculture
• Industy
• Shipping
• Trade

This was the main economy of the Union

• Agriculture

• Industry

• Shipping

• Trade