Lesson 2 Multiple Choice Flashcards
Union General Grant recognized that southern supplies were coming from the Shenandoah Valley and ordered
his troops to destroy the area and leave it barren
President Lincoln gave the famous Gettysburg Address to dedicate
a cemetery for soldiers who had died there
Women often served in the War as _____, ______, and ______
Cooks, nurses, laundry women
Protests to the war were led by northern Democrats known as
copperheads
Southern naval designers created an iron clad vessel called the
Merrimack
Lincoln’s reconstruction plan called for the
pardon of any southerner who would take an oath of loyalty to the Union
The Radical Republican plan for reconstruction put the South under
military rule
In 1870, Hiram Revels of Mississippi became the first African American to
be elected to the United States Senate
The massive amount of rebuilding that was needed in the southern states sometimes led to
corruption among government officials
The Compromise of 1877 resulted from
a dispute over the presidential election of 1876
A new block of Democratic voters in 1872 was known as the
Solid South
During Reconstruction, the KKK was formed to eliminate the _______ in the South
Republican Party
The assassination of _____________ in 1865 left the country in grief and its politics in chaos
President Lincoln
The Union soldiers at Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor were led by
U.S. Grant
Residents of _______ dug caves in hillsides to avoid the constant Union bombardment
Vicksburg
