Build Up to the War
Civil War Facts
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Battles
100
The act of formally withdrawing from the Union
What is secession?
100
People in the North who disagreed with Lincoln and wanted to end the war by making peace with the South?
What are Copperheads?
100
won at Vicksburg, then was moved to command the East
Who is General U.S. Grant?
100
President of the United States during the war
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
First major battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Bull Run/Manassas?
200
Concept of allowing people in a state to vote as to whether they will be a slave or free state
What is Popular Sovereignty?
200
The first shots of the war were here
What is Fort Sumter?
200
Marched destructively from Chattanooga to Savannah, Georgia
Who is General William Tecumseh Sherman?
200
President of the Confederacy during the war
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
City put under siege for six weeks
What is Vicksburg?
300
Supreme Court case that asserted that governments could not ban slavery
What is the Dred Scott Case?
300
Document Lincoln issued that freed slaves in the areas of rebellion
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
General of Confederate forces in the East
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Captured New Orleans for the North
Who is Admiral David Farragut?
300
Three day battle in Pennsylvania
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
Act that divided the remainder of the Louisiana territory into two states
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
Famous naval battle during the Civil War was between these two ships
What are the Monitor and the Merrimack/Virginia?
400
General killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville
Who is General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
400
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scott case
Who is Roger Taney?
400
Battle near the TN/MS border
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
500
Stephen Douglass's solution to his contradictory stances of supporting both the Dred Scott decision and Popular Sovereignty?
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
500
Where Lee surrendered to Grant
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
Union commander at Fort Sumter
Who is Robert Anderson?
500
"Little Napoleon"
Who is George McClellan?
500
Bloodiest day of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Antietam?
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