People
This president's election in 1860 led several Southern states to secede.
Abraham Lincoln
This attack on a federal fort in South Carolina in April 1861 started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
The 1863 speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln at a battlefield dedication in Pennsylvania.
President of the Union States
Abraham Lincoln
The president who was elected before Abraham Lincoln who is considered one of the worst presidents in history due to his inability to handle the Civil War.
James Buchanan
Union general who accepted Lee's surrender.
Ulyssus Grant
The location where Robert E Lee surrendered his army to Union officials
Appomattox Court House
The 1863 proclamation that declared slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free.
Emancipation Proclamation
Robert E Lee's estate became what national landmark/cemetary?
Arlington Cemetary
Abolitionaist is someone against...
Slavery
Abolitionist who led an 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to start a slave uprising.
John Brown
The single-day bloodiest battle in American history, fought in Maryland in 1862.
Battle of Antietam
The constitutional amendment war that abolished slavery nationwide.
13 Amendment
This state seceded the Union first after the election of Abraham Lincoln
South Carolina
This was the war that targets economic and strategic resources to weaken the enimies ability to fight.
Total War
He led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Robert E Lee
A three-day battle in Pennsylvania (July 1863) that is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
The Supreme Court decision that ruled African Americans could not be U.S. citizens and heightened sectional tensions.
Dred Scott Decision
The President of the Confederate states
Jefferson Davis
What Civil War general eventually became president?
Ulyssus Grant
The President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
General Sherman's destructive campaign through Georgia aimed at crippling Southern morale and resources; name the campaign
Sherman's March to the Sea
John Brown's abolitionist raid in Virginia where he was caught and killed.
Harper's Ferry
After the Civil War both the North and South suffered from many casualties. Provide an estimate of how many military casualities were in the war?
(Rounded by closest 100,000th)
750,000
Abraham Lincoln's initial reason to to start the Civil War was to preserve the .....
Union