The South
The main war goal of the Confederacy.
Keep slavery
The President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
The proslavery party of the 1850s and 60s.
Democrats
Noun
The military leader of the Confederate Army.
Robert E. Lee
The military leader of the Union Army.
Ulysses S. Grant
Amputations
This 1850 law made it a federal crime to aid runaway enslaved people. It also allowed the arrest of escaped people.
Fugitive Slave Act
This Oakland native wrote There There.
Tommy Orange
Printing too much cash leads to this economic phenomenon.
Inflation
The North's main war goal.
Save the Union
New weapons technology during the Civil War.
Exploding shells, flamethrowers, machine guns, observation balloons, redesigned gun barrels.
Considered the worst supreme court case decision in American history, this ruling unlawfully sent a free man and his family back into slavery.
The Dred Scott Decision or Scott v. Sanford
The full name of our nation's capital.
Washington D.C. (District of Columbia)
He was selected as the South's very first president.
Jefferson Davis
Lincoln freed the enslaved people of the south so that they would...
Join the Union army.
Bloodiest day of the Civil Was was fought during this battle.
Battle of Antietam
_______ Kansas
"Bleeding"
He's the governor of California who almost got recalled this past year.
Gavin Newsom
The real name for the red flag with a blue "Southern Cross" (two diagonal stripes with white stars).
The Battle Flag
Lincoln made sure not to lose this border state (which shares three sides of Washington D.C.'s borders) as it would have jeopardized the capital and therefore the Union greatly.
Maryland
First major battle of the Civil War; ended in a chaotic stampede, scrapping all hopes for a short war.
Battle of Bull Run
New Orleans
Radical senator from Vermont who garnered so much support in the last presidential election, you could really feel it!
Bernie Sanders