People
Top commanding general of the Confederate Army.
Robert E. Lee
Invention that made rifles more accurate & deadly.
Minnie Ball
This state was the first to secede (leave) the Union.
South Carolina
The capital city of the Union (United States)
Washington D.C.
The act of humans owning other humans.
slavery
Woman who founded the Red Cross.
Clara Barton
Disease responsible for so many deaths.
Gangrene
Southerners attacked this fort & started the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Besides slavery, many Southerners were fighting for this.
States' Rights
This person led a raid on a federal Weapons Arsenal in Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
Union general who marched through Atlanta & all the way to the sea.
Sherman
Famous speech that Lincoln made in Pennsylvania in 1863.
Gettysburg Address
Where most of the battles were fought during the war.
South
This invention led to the increase of slavery because it sped up the manufacturing of cotton in the South.
Cotton Gin
Elected in 1860, president of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
Type of battle tactics that led to so many deaths.
Open field fighting (lines)
Lincoln's decision & law that freed the slaves.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in this state.
Pennsylvania
This allowed slave catchers to go to the North & capture escaped slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
Top commander of the Union Army & later became president of the United States.
Ulysses Grant
2 primary tools Lincoln used to defeat the South.
Railroads & Telegraph
Deadliest battle and turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
The final battle of the war & where General Lee surrounded to General Grant to officially end the war.
Appomattox
What the North excessively levied on the South related to the production of cotton.
Tariffs