Individuals
Led a raid and killed white slave owners. Was later hanged for treason.
Who is John Brown?
A order to free any slaves in rebel states. Meant to weaken the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What was the bloodiest battle and turning point of the Civil War?
The Battle of Gettysburg
Name a reason why the Union won the Civil War
What are Technology, population, leaders etc.?
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
What is to Secede?
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
Law passed to permanently abolish slavery throughout the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What was a major result for the Mexican-American War?
What is the United States gained large Western territories?
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Lincoln's primary focus for the Civil War
What is To Preserve the Union?
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are Abolitionists?
Who was the main union general?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Why did the Confederacy leave the United States?
What is To Protect Slavery because Abraham Lincoln was elected?
Location of the very first shots of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
Why did westward expansion increase sectional tensions?
What is Americans disagreed whether slavery should expand into new lands?
The idea that citizens of a territory should decide whether to allow slavery
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabins"? A novel revealing the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
What does the term Homefront describe?
What is Civilian life and support for the war away from the battlefield?
What was the first state that left the United State?
What is South Carolina?
What does Annexation mean?
What is Adding territory to an existing country?
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman?
Black indivuals were asked to join the Union army to fight for what two reasons?
What are To fight for their freedom and to defeat the Confederacy?
Final large battle of the civil war. Place where Lee surrendered to Grant, effectively ending the civil war.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
Which Supreme Court case in 1857 worsened tension between the North and South and claim slave were property prior to the outbreak of the Civil War
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
What does domestic mean when describing traditional women's roles in the 1800s?
What is related to the home and household?