Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
What was the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The act allowed for popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories; this overruled the Missouri Compromise which had declared those free states because they were over the compromise line. Led to violence “Bleeding Kansas”
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
The first battle of the Civil War
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter? or Charleston, SC?
Which side called themselves the Rebels?
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?
This event kicked off the Civil War
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
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?
He shouted "thus always to tyrants" after he shot the President.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
What is a siege?
military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This battle was key to fulfill the Anaconda plan (taking the Mississippi river)
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
Where the Battle of Gettysburg took place.
What is Pennsylvania?
How did many northerners feel about the Emancipation Proclamation
They were angry and feared that free slaves would take their jobs
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?
Lincoln suspended this constitutional right (requirement for a person under arrest to see a judge) at the beginning of the war
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
Bloodiest SINGLE DAY battle in the war
What is the Battle of Antietam
Sherman's March to the Sea ended in this city
What is Savannah, GA?
What was Lincoln's primary goal of the Civil War?
To preserve the Union
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman?
Mandatory military service; this was put into place in the North and the South
What is a draft?
This battle lasted from July 1-July 3 1863, and who won?
Gettysburg, the Union
This battle secured Union control of the Mississippi River
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
Name a slave state that stayed in the union....
Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland
The most common cause of death during the war
What is disease/infection?
An infamously cautious Union general; He was removed from his post after the Battle of Antietam
Who is General McClellan?
When the military attacks both civilian and military targets...
Total War
In two days of fighting, 25,000 were dead or wounded. This horrified both the North and South.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
In this battle, the Union captured an important rail/industrial center in the South and burned it to the ground....
What is the capture of Atlanta?
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
What profession grew substantially with the help of women’s participation, especially Clara Barton, during the Civil War?
Nursing