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Civil War & Reconstruction: Key Events & Impacts

Explore the pivotal moments of the Civil War and Reconstruction era, from the secession of Southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation and reconstruction efforts in Texas. Learn about key figures like Jefferson Davis and Ulysses S. Grant, as well as significant battles and legislative changes that shaped American history.

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Civil War & Reconstruction: Key Events & Impacts

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  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.

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