Causes
Slavery
Leaders
Battles
War Geography
100
What compromise added Maine as a free state and set the line of latitude to indicate slave and free states for the future?
Missouri Compromise
100
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
100
Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
100
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
100
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
200
Who raided Harper’s Ferry?
John Brown
200
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
200
Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
200
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
200
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
Northern; Southern
300
Which state was the first to leave the Union?
South Carolina
300
What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?
The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations
300
Who was the major Confederate General?
Robert E. Lee
300
What was the name of the Union's plan to defeat the Confederacy?
Anaconda Plan
300
Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North)
400
What was the second reason the Civil War was be fought?
Slavery
400
What document declared that all slaves in the southern states were free?
Emancipation Proclamation
400
Which Union leader marched across Georgia leaving a path of destruction from burning and destroying everything?
William Sherman
400
Which two battles were the only ones fought on Northern soil?
Antietam and Gettysburg
400
What were some effects of the war on the South?
Cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed. The results of the fighting were devastating.
500
The first cause of the Civil War
States were leaving the Union
500
The name of the path that escaping slaves used.
The Underground Railroad
500
How did Lincoln die?
He was assassinated while watching a play with his wife.
500
Where did the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
500
Why did the South rely so heavily on slaves?
They were economically dependent on the cotton trade
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