Secession & Causes
This president's election in 1860 helped cause Southern states to begin seceding.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Union plan called for blockading the Southern coastline.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War and resulted in a Confederate victory.
What is the Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)?
He was the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the first Southern state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
According to the Anaconda Plan, controlling this major river would help divide the South.
What is the Mississippi River?
This battle was a Union victory in the West that helped bring Tennessee back under Union control.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
He was the Confederate president.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This amendment guaranteed citizenship to formerly enslaved people.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The South argued that states had the right to leave the Union based on this idea.
What is states' rights?
The South hoped to make the North tired of fighting so that Northern civilians would demand an end to the war. This was part of the Southern strategy to...
What is make the North quit?
Lincoln used the outcome of this battle to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. It is also known as the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This famous Confederate general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment gave formerly enslaved men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The 11 seceding states formed this new country in 1861.
What is the Confederate States of America (CSA)?
The South hoped that Britain or France would become an ally because of their dependence on this Southern export.
What is cotton?
This three-day battle in Pennsylvania was a major Union victory and is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
DAILY DOUBLE
This Union general eventually became the leading Union commander and accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
This famous woman became known for helping wounded soldiers during the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
This proposed compromise would have protected slavery forever in places where it already existed.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
The South wanted to bring the war in this cardinal direction to make Union civilians experience the destruction of war for themselves.
What is bring the war north?
At this location in Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This Union general marched from Atlanta to Savannah, destroying railroads and other resources along the way.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
The Civil War established that this level of government was supreme over the states.
What is the national/federal government?