Quizs- The Events of the Civil War Vocabulary

Former slaves worked on farms in exchange for food and a place to live

• Freedman's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

• Sharecropping

Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote

• 11th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg

• March to the Sea

• Appomattox Court House

• Gettysburg Address

Southern States left the United States after Abraham Lincoln became president

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• secede

Turning point of the Civil War

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• March to the Sea

President of Confederate States (South)

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Jefferson Davis

• William T. Sherman

Battle that began the Civil War

• Fort Sumter

• Battle of Gettysburg

• March to the Sea

Laws used against African Americans to limit their freedom

• 15th Amendment

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Jim Crow Laws

General who led the Confederate Army during the Civil War

• Robert E. Lee

• William T. Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

Amendment that abolished slavery

• 14th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 2nd Amendment