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President of the United States from 1861-1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first official land battle of the Civil War.
What is Bull Run/Manassas?
The two major Union victories known as the turning points of the war were_____________________.
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
This area contained huge farms called plantations and had more enslaved people here.
What is the South?
This state separated from Virginia, and was admitted into the Union, at least partially because of the issue of Virginia's secession.
What is West Virginia?
This person was the most successful Northern general in the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle, which occurred in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
What is Ford's Theatre?
This area had more people and factories and most of the people opposed slavery.
The name given to the overall Union military strategy at the start of the war.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This person was the most successful Southern general in the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Grant's siege of this city on the Mississippi River helped split the Confederacy into two parts.
What is Vicksburg?
What was the purpose of General Sherman's March to the Sea?
Destroy everything in Georgia that could help the South win the war.
Most of the people living here opposed the election of Abraham Lincoln as President.
South
This eventually replaced the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This person was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Lee's "Lost Orders" helped lead to Union victory in this battle; single bloodiest day in battle in US history.
What is Antietam?
Where did Lee surrender to Grant to end the war?
In the town of Appomattox Court House, Virginia.
Many of the states here broke away from the Union.
South
Union General who was victorious at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who is George Meade?
This General was fired after the Battle of Antietam and warned Lincoln to not issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is George B. McClellan?
At the conclusion of this battle, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson would be shot and die 8 days later from friendly fire.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
What play was Lincoln watching the night he was assassinated?
Our American Cousin
This was how many Border States there were.
5
The three Presidents, in order, that followed Lincoln.
Who are Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes?