Important People
Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
What compromise added Maine as a free state and set the line of latitude to indicate slave and free states for the future?
Missouri Compromise
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
Abolitionist
Who was the major Confederate General?
Robert E. Lee
Which state was the first to leave the Union?
South Carolina
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Which Union leader marched across Georgia leaving a path of destruction from burning and destroying everything?
William Sherman
What was the second reason the Civil War was be fought?
Slavery
Where did the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
The name of the path that escaping slaves used.
The Underground Railroad
How did Lincoln die?
He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theater.
The first cause of the Civil War
States were leaving the Union.
Who won the Civil War?
The Union
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
North; South
Who was elected in 1860 that led to southern states seceeding
Abraham Lincoln
What issue did the Missouri Compromise try to solve?
Would the new states be free or slave states?
This battle had the largest number of casualties
Gettysburg
Famous speech given after the Civil war ended
The Gettysburg Address