People
Lincoln’s speech that said the Civil War was fought to preserve the government “of the people, by the people, and for the people."
What is the Gettysburg Address
Document that ended slavery in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
First state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina.
Caused more deaths during the Civil War than face-to-face combat
Disease
Former enslaved African American who escaped to the North and became an abolitionist.
What is Fredrick Douglas.
A slave owned by a Dr. Emerson, was taken from Missouri to a free state and then back to Missouri again.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
The first land battle of the Civil War.
What is Bull Run (Manassas)
The south depended on ______ for their economy.
What is agriculture.
Commander of the Confederate Army; was offered command of the Union Army by Lincoln at the beginning of the war
What is Robert E. Lee.
The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
What is Secession.
Robert E. Lee defeated the Union troops at
What is Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle that was the “turning point” of the war; the Union had the advantage of defending high ground.
What is Gettysburg.
Nurse during the Civil War known as the “Angel of the Battlefield.” She started the American Red Cross.
What is Clara Barton.
This Union naval tactic that prevented port cities such as Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans from getting needed supplies and exporting cotton.
What is blockade.
A law passed under the Compromise Of 1850 that forced Northerners to return runaway slaves to the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
African American Confederate boat pilot that escaped and became a Union naval captain and a congressman after the Civil War.
What is Robert Smalls.
A United States Supreme Court case, involving a former congressman of Ohio, who had violated an Army order against the public expression of sympathy for the Confederate States and their cause.
Ex parte Vallandigham (1863)
Last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River that gave the Union control of the river, thereby dividing the South.
What is Vicksburg.
An October 16, 1859, raid by John Brown, the infamous Free-Soiler who had killed five proslavery men at the Pottawatomie Massacre.
Harpers Ferry Raid