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SS CivilWar pt2
SS Lessons 3-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Juneteenth? | A traditional day of celebration that marks the day General Gordon Granger was sent to Texas after the Civil War to announce that enslaved people were free. |
| What was the effect of limited fresh food on the war front? | local farms were raided |
| What were problems that arose in war hospitals? | Unsanitary conditions led to the spread of disease and death. |
| Who was Sojourner Truth? | Former slave that worked for the abolition of slavery |
| Why did Abraham Lincoln issue the Emanciptaion Proclamation? | He wanted the administration to set an example through emancipation. |
| The battles took place mostly in the ______ and _______ ______ to the border states. | South and moved North |
| Who led the Union Army and had an agressive fighting style? | General Ulysses S. Grant |
| Who led the Confederate Army and used strategy rather than brute force? | General Robert E. Lee |
| How did the Civil War end? | General Lee surrendered to the General Grant in Virginia. |
| What is the name of the famous speech that President Lincoln gave during the Civil War? | The Gettysburg Address |
| Unpoplar Northerners who moved South were called __________. | carpetbaggers |
| Southernes who supported Reconsrtuction were called __________. | scalawags |
| Which amendment was quoted saying âThe rights of citizens of the US to vote shall note be denied or abridged by the US or by any state on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude.â? | The fifteenth Amendment |
| What was the impact of the post Civil War practice o sharecropping? | The practice forced the poor to rent land at night prices and kept them in debt. |
| Who was Harriet Tubman? | She was a former slave that led over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. |