Civil War Vocabulary
These people thought slavery should be banned in the whole country.
What are abolitionists?
President during the Union
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The main economic difference between North and South before the war
What is plantations and enslaved labor in the South versus factories in the North?
Natural geographic features that protected Camp Nelson on three sides from Confederate attacks.
What is the KY River, the Palisades (cliffs) and Hickman Creek?
The executive order issued by Lincoln declaring enslaved people in Confederate territories free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The period after the Civil War when Southern states were re-built.
What is Reconstruction?
A famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
The political event in 1860 that caused 11 Southern states to secede, fearing slavery would be banned.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
A reason why African American men would enlist in the Union Army
What is they would receive their freedom?
The famous speech where Lincoln reminded citizens that the U.S. was dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal."
What is The Gettysburg Address?
Southern states were called this during the Civil War
What is the Confederacy?
President of the Confederate States
Who was Jefferson Davis?
A major Northern military advantage over the South during the war.
What is having most of the nation's factories and railroad lines?
Things that the Union Army supplied from Fort Nelson
What is wagons, arms, uniforms, horses?
The Constitutional Amendments that declared all people born in the US to be citizens and giving African American men the right to vote.
What are the 14th and 15th Amendments?
Leaving the Union
What is secede?
Main General of the Union Army
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This law allowed escaped slaves to be captured and returned, even in the North where slavery was banned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Some of the buildings found at Fort Nelson.
What are hospitals, barracks, stables, bakery, laundry, quartermaster's house?
Strategic reason Lincoln didn't free enslaved people in border states with the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is to keep border states like Kentucky and Maryland loyal to the Union?
The name of the Northern states
What is the Union?
The main general of the Confederate States.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The location where the Civil War officially began in 1861 when Confederate forces opened fire.
What is Fort Sumter?
The general in charge of Camp Nelson
Who was General Burnside?
The 1863 battle considered a key turning point because it permanently stopped Lee's army from invading the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?