Civil War and Reconstruction

1. What happened when the Southern states

seceded?

They broke their ties to the United States

forming their own country, called the Confederate States of America.

2. Who was president of the Confederacy?

Jefferson Davis

3. What was the Confederacy?

The slaveholding states that seceded from the

Union.

4. What was Ulysses S. Grant’s major role in

the Civil War?

General appointed to lead the Union army to

victory

5. He was the leading general of the

Confederacy.

Robert E. Lee

6. What is the name of the fort where the Civil

War began?

Fort Sumter

7. The Emancipation Proclamation declared

that

enslaved persons in the Confederate states

would be freed.

8. What was the first battle of the Civil War

fought on Northern soil?

The Battle of Bull Run

9. This was where the surrender of the Civil

War was signed.

Appomattox Court House

10. What body of water is the Siege of

Vicksburg near? Why was the battle important to the outcome

of the war?

The Mississippi River Whoever won the battle controlled the river

11. Abraham Lincoln

President of the United states during the Civil

War Gave the Gettysburg Address Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation

12. John Wilkes Booth

Assassinated Abraham Lincoln.

13. Appomattox Court House

Where Lee surrendered to Grant ending the

Civil War

14. Reconstruction effected Texas how?

Texas had to write a new constitution in order

to rejoin the Union

15. The Freedman’s Bureau gave former

slaves what advantage?

Economic independence

16. How did the economy of Texas change

after the Civil War?

It became a sharecropping based economy

17. How were former slaves affected by the

new Texas constitutions written after the Civil War?

It gave the male former slaves the right to

vote.