Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
Groves within a gun that make the firing more accurate are called?
Rifle/Riffling
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
First Shots of the Civil war
Fort Sumpter
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter? or Charleston, SC?
Which side called themselves the Confederacy
What is the South?
The Union general who later became President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
Theatre where Lincoln was assassinator.
Fords theatre
This 3 day battle was the deadliest conflict in North American history
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
Northern advantages in the war.
What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads?
What general took Atlanta and then took his army on a "March to the sea"?
William T. Sherman.
He attacked the armory at Harpers Ferry to capture weapons to fight against slavery.
What is John Brown?
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This battle took place about one year after the first one with the same name.
What is the 2nd Battle of Bull Run?
The town near where the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought.
What is Hampton Roads, Virginia
The economy of the Southern states was based on this product.
What is cotton.
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The new state created when Virginia seceded from the United States.
What is West Virginia?
This battle shocked the Union army and was a stunning victory for the confederacy. It was the first major land battle of the war.
Bull Run/Manassas
The other name for the 1st Battle of Bull Run.
What is the Battle of Manassas.
The capital city of the Confederate States
What was Richmond, Virginia?
Early war Union commander, known for his indecisiveness.
George McClellan
He organized a slave revolt bt was captured and hanged.
Who is Nat Turner?
The final major battle of the Civil War and the location of the surrender by General Robert E. Lee.
What was Appomattox.
The taking of this city helped secure Lincolns election in 1864
What is the battle of Atlanta
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia and Delaware
What are slave states that remained in the union?
The most common cause of death during the war
What is disease/infection?
Nickname of Thomas J. Jackson of the confederacy
Stonewall
This many states seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America.
What is 11?
General Stonewall Jackson helped lead the Confederate Army to victory at this battle
What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run
The Union General who captured Richmond
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
The union plan to surround and blockade the south into submission was called the what plan?
Anaconda plan.
This law stated that any enslaved African Americans who ran away could find refugee behind Union lines.
What was the Confiscation Acts.