Vocab
The battle between the Northern and Southern states of the US.
What is the Civil War?
This 1863 order issued by President Lincoln declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The 16th President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Union general became famous for his strategy of total war and relentless pursuit of Confederate armies.
He was also the 18th President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This idea allowed voters in a territory (not Congress) to decide whether to allow slavery or not.
Led to the conflict called "Bleeding Kansas"
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This Union naval strategy was a key part of the Anaconda Plan, squeezing the Confederacy by cutting off its ports.
The president of the Confederate States.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Fought for his home state in Virginia, and his loss at Gettysburg was a major turning point in the war.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This term describes when a state withdraws from the US.
Bonus: What was the first state to do this?
What is Secession
South Carolina
This term refers to slave states such as Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri that remained in the Union during the Civil War.
What is a Border State?
This Confederate general earned his nickname at the first Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
This cautious Union general organized the Army of the Potomac but was criticized by Lincoln for failing to aggressively pursue Confederate forces and was ultimately fired.
Who is George McClellan?
Lincoln suspended this legal right in order to arrest suspected Confederate sympathizers without formal charges.
What is "Habeas Corpus"
This military strategy targets not only enemy armies but also railroads, farms, and civilian resources to destroy the enemy’s ability to fight.
What is Total War?
The leader of the raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
This enslaved man sued for his freedom, leading to an 1857 Supreme Court ruling that said African Americans were not U.S. citizens.
Who is Dred Scott?
Name the states in the Union.
Hint: there is 17-20
Who is California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin?
Name the states in the Confederacy.
Hint: there is 12
Who is South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee?
This Union general believed in “total war” and led the destructive March to the Sea from Atlanta to Savannah.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This Illinois senator debated Abraham Lincoln and supported popular sovereignty, helping create the Kansas–Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen Douglas?