Civil War Battles
This was the first major battle of the Civil War. People came out and had picnics to watch.
First Battle of Bull Run
This individual was President of the Union and also issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
President Abraham Lincoln
This cause of the Civil War was due to differing opinions on this highly debated subject during the 1800's.
Slavery
The States that remained loyal to the Union during the war but got to keep their slaves were called
Border States
A simple, durable cracker or biscuit made from flour, water, and salt, known for its extreme hardness and incredibly long shelf life.
Hardtack
This 1862 battle in Maryland was the bloodiest single day in American military history.
Battle of Antietam
This individual was a Union general who eventually became a commanding general of the Union Army and accepted Lee's surrender.
Ulysses S. Grant
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
The states that Seceded from the United States formed a country with this name
Confederacy
This man was a violent abolitionist that killed many pro slavery supporters with a sword.
John Brown
This 1863 battle was a major turning point in the Civil War.
Battle of Gettysburg
This individual is best known for becoming the President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
This 1854 law allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery.
Kansas Nebraska Act
This was the first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
This book exposed the horrors of slavery to millions of people across the country becoming the best selling book of the decade.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This Union victory in July 1863 gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
Siege of Vicksburg
This individual was a Confederate general and commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. It took 4 years for the Union to capture this individual.
Robert E. Lee
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
The Confederate capital was located in this city in Virginia
Richmond
Anaconda Plan
The battle of the USS Monitor and USS Merrimack was the first time in the world these kinds of ships battled each other:
Ironclads
This formerly enslaved woman became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
The election of Abraham Lincoln terrified many southerners because they thought he was going to ban slavery for good. What year was he elected?
1860
The border states, were states that remained loyal to the north during the war but got to keep their slaves. Name 1.
Kentucky, Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia
This is the name of the Confederate general who got his nickname from being as strong as a stonewall
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson