Vocab
The act of legally getting rid of a particular institution or law system.
What is abolition?
The most iconic and bloody battle of the Civil War - involved the Union stopping an advance by Robert E. Lee in Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater in 1865 immediately following the Civil War.
Officially freed all slaves in South on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Had the most battles won and led for the South during the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
What is sectionalism?
The first shots fired of the Civil War were fired by the South on this Union base.
What is Fort Sumter?
The first state to Secede from the Union.
Who is South Carolina?
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Legendary general and future president who finally forced the final Southern surrender for the North.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
To free from a legal or political restriction.
What is emancipation?
The single most deadly day in U.S. history - led by Robert E. Lee for the South and George McClellan in the North.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Union war strategy created by Winfield Scott that involved surrounding and eventually suffocating the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This speech was given by Lincoln in an effort to convince the nation to come together in his senatorial campaign in 1858.
What is the 'House Divided' speech?
Senator from Illinois who famously debated Lincoln for the Illinois Senate election of 1858.
Who is Stephen Douglass?
The legal requirement for evidence or a court hearing to take place in order for a person to be held in captivity.
What is Habeas Corpus?
This iconic win by Ulysses S. Grant involved the Union's critical takeover of the Mississippi.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
The years of the American Civil War.
When is 1861-1865?
Lincoln burst onto the political scene by speaking out against the Kansas-Nebraska act in a three hour speech in this city in Illinois.
What is Peoria?
President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
To formally leave a political entity or group.
What is secession?
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
This invention allowed military personnel and politicians to communicate with one another across the country for the first time in warfare.
What is the telegraph?
The final surrender of the Civil War was agreed to with Robert E. Lee surrendering to Ulysses S. Grant at what building in Virginia?
What is Appomattox Court House?
This general was beloved by his troops, but was fired by Lincoln for his hesitancy and great losses at the Battle of Antietam?
Who is George McClellan?