Causes
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beacher Stowe?
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
What are abolitionists?
Who was the President of the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
What is Fort Sumter?
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
What is the South?
Who raided Harper’s Ferry?
Who is John Brown?
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
What is Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin?
Who was the major Union General?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
What is Northern; Southern?
Why did Uncle Tom’s Cabin anger northern abolitionists?
What is the depiction of the evils of slavery?
What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?
What is the north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations?
Who were two major Confederate Generals?
Who are Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
What was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War?
What is Antietam?
Who won the Civil War?
What is the Union (North)?
Why did John Brown raid Harper’s Ferry?
What is to steal weapons to start an anti-slavery rebellion?
What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?
What is they were primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops?
What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
What was the name of the union strategy to surround the South and strangle it
What is the Anaconda Plan?
What were some effects of the war on the South?
What is cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed, slaves were freed in the former Confederacy?
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
What is the issue of states' rights?
Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
What is an escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad?
How did Lincoln die?
What is he was assassinated while watching a play with his wife?
What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
What is the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
Along what river was the South split in two?
What is the Mississippi?