The Road to War
The withdrawal of Southern states from the Union in 1860–1861.
What is secession?
The President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here in 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
Lincoln’s 1863 statement freeing enslaved people in Confederate-held areas.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A Northern law requiring men to serve in the military, unless they paid for a substitute.
What is conscription?
The idea that voters in a territory should decide whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
The President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The first major battle of the war, which shocked the North with its Confederate victory.
What is Bull Run?
The 1865 amendment that permanently abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
The Union’s new tax on earnings to help fund the war.
What is an income tax?
The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a novel that stirred Northern opposition to slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The Union general known for his "March to the Sea."
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
The bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history, leading to the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
The speech Lincoln gave to honor fallen soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The nurse who later founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
This enslaved man sued for his freedom, but the Supreme Court ruled that he was not a citizen.
Who is Dred Scott?
The leading Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The turning point battle in Pennsylvania that ended Lee’s invasion of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
The document Confederate states used to justify leaving the Union.
What is the Confederate Constitution (or “the Confederacy”)?
The famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The president elected in 1852 whose term saw rising sectional tensions.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
The Confederate general nicknamed for standing firm at Bull Run.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
The siege that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
The location where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
The actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?