Civil War Review

Civil War People

100

President of the Union, elected in 1860

Abraham Lincoln

200

President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

300

Helped convince Lincoln to allow Black soldiers to enlist in the Union army

Frederick Douglass

400

Union General who would go on to become president

Ulysses S. Grant

500

Richmond Abolitionist and Union Spy

Elizabeth van Lew

Civil War Terms

100

Term for the group of people opposed to slavery

Abolitionists

200

Lincoln believed it was illegal for Southern states to leave the union, also known as this.

Secede

300

This document declared that enslaved people in rebelling states were henceforward free

Emancipation Proclamation

400

In the election of 1860, this political party was split over the issue of slavery.

Democratic Party

500

"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

Identify the speaker and speech of the above quote.

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

Major Events

100

Robert E. Lee surrendered here in 1865

Appomattox Court House

200

First state to secede from the Union

South Carolina

300

Major protest in the Confederacy over a lack of food

Richmond Bread Riots

400

What happened on April 14, 1865, only five days after the Confederates surrendered?

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

500

Sherman's March to the Sea ended in what city?

Savannah

Civil War Misc.

100

Capital of the Confederacy

Richmond

200

First Black Naval Captain and later a Congressman from SC

Robert Smalls

300

This holiday commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States

Juneteenth

400

Most common cause of death during the Civil War

Disease

500

Identify three of the northern advantages at the beginning of the war.

More railroads, better manufacturing, higher total population, better technology

Civil War Battles

100

This was both the turning point and largest battle of the Civil War

Battle of Gettysburg

200

First battle of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

300

First major battle of the Civil War

First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas

400

Took place in Georgia and followed a "scorched earth policy"

Sherman's March to the Sea

500

This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River

Battle of Vicksburg