Civil War Causes
This law required that escaped slaves be returned to their masters.
Fugitive Slave Act
The Battle of Hampton Roads featured two warships covered in metal. These ships were called ___________
Ironclads
____________ resulted in more deaths than any other cause during the civil war
Disease
The capital of the Confederacy
Richmond
This principle allowed people to vote on whether or not their state would allow slavery. It also means a government "by the people".
Popular Sovereignty
This Union Victory was the turning point in the war
Gettysburg
What is a siege?
When you've got your enemy surrounded and wait for them to run out of supplies/give up
The Union strategy of blockading the South worked because the South ____________
The south didn't have factories to produce anything
The election of 1860 was a cause of the Civil War because ___________
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican which was seen as the anti-slavery party at the time.
This battle was the single deadliest day in American History
Antietam
Because of the destructive nature of the weaponry used during the Civil War, the most common solution to someone being shot in the foot, hand, arm, or leg was _________
Amputation
Shortly after the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, Abraham Lincoln was
Assassinated
This abolitionist tried to steal guns from a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, WV in hopes of starting a slave rebellion
John Brown
Sherman's March to the Sea was an example of Total War. Total War is ____________
Destroying anything which may be of use to your enemy including infrastructure, food supplies, and civilian buildings
Adding states to the Union was a cause of the Civil War because _______________
Adding too many of either free or slave states would upset the balance of free and slave state representatives in congress
The 13th Amendment is different from the Emancipation Proclamation because
The 13th Amendment freed all the slaves and was an addition to the Constitution
During Bleeding Kansas, people both for and against slavery came to the state in order to_________
vote to make Kansas a free or slave state
Running low on ammunition, Colonel Lawrence Chamberlain used this in a last ditch effort to hold his line on little round top at Gettysburg.
Bayonet Charge
The Union Plan to blockade and starve out the south was called the ___________
The Anaconda Plan
When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation it _______________
Freed the slaves in the Confederate states who were in rebellion