Pre-Civil War
What the Southern states did illegally both before and after the attack on Fort Sumter.
What is secede?
The order that President Abraham Lincoln issued to free slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The dates (in years) of the start, end, and duration of the Civil War.
What are 1861, 1865, and 4 years?
Before ever going to battle, Minnesota troops were trained at this location, which never saw a battle on its own ground.
What is Fort Snelling?
This person served as president of the United States of America during the Civil War and was the first president to be assassinated.
**Double points if you can tell me if the assassination happened during or after the war**
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is after the war?
This side had both slave and free states.
What is the North?
The US Supreme Court's ruling (decision) in the Dred Scott case.
What is "not free"? (They were seen as property, not citizens and had no rights so they were still slaves.)
The original goal of the war before it shifted after President Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederacy.
What is to keep the United States together?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This battle is one of the most famous of the Civil War and was later the site of President Lincoln's famous speech.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This person was so eager to join the war that they lied about their age.
Who is Charley Goddard?
Another name for the Southern states.
What is the Confederacy?
What ended up happening in Minnesota as a result of the decision that Eliza Winston be given her freedom.
What is the decline of tourism and businesses losing money?
This group of people were not allowed to ever be soldiers in the Civil War, but they helped in military camps as nurses and volunteers who helped injured soldiers write letters to their families.
Who are women?
The right given to African Americans before it was given to women.
What is the right to vote?
This battle sparked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the Battle at Fort Sumter?
This person was elected president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This side had a larger population and more railroad tracks.
What is the North?
The topic that sparked debates and intensified tensions between the North and South as the nation was growing.
What is slavery in the new western states?
Name TWO ways that Minnesotans on the home front supported the soldiers during war.
What is
- Sent letters/care packages
- Raised money for families
- Provided companionship to mothers/wives
- Kept working farms/businesses
- Sent supplies to soldiers
This amendment allowed citizenship to ALL people born in the United States regardless of race.
What is the 14th Amendment?
The first battle that the First Minnesota Regiment fought in that a young MN soldier was too sick to fight in.
What is the First Battle at Bull Run?
This general fought for the Confederacy even though he didn't believe in slavery or that the war should even happen at all.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
This side raised cash crops such as sugar, cotton, and tobacco.
What is the South?
The political event that caused the Southern states to secede.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
***DAILY DOUBLE***
The FIVE states that were known as border states that were part of the Union but still allowed slavery.
What are Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia?
A positive effect of the Civil War on Minnesota.
What is:
- The MN economy ($$) flourished
- Wheat production increased
- Immigrants continued to move into MN
- MN people learned their lives were connected to others in the USA
Known as the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, this battle had over 22,000 casualties (deaths or injuries).
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This slave, who could read and write, escaped slavery on a raft towed behind a steamboat and helped establish the first African American Baptist congregation (church).
Who is Robert Hickman?
**2 part answer** The battle that began the Civil War happened in this state. This state belongs to this side.
What is South Carolina?
What is the Confederacy?