People
He was the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
The first battle of the war after Fort Sumter
Bull Run
The first state to secede after Lincoln was elected.
South Carolina
The main crop the South was growing.
Cotton
The year Lincoln was elected president.
1860
This general was known to be very cautious.
General McClellan
When the Union won the Battle of Shiloh, this man became a hero.
Ulysses S. Grant
These states had slaves, but fought with the Union.
Border States
The number of African Americans who fought in the war for the Union.
200,000
President Lincoln's main goal during the war.
Save the Union
The leader of the Confederate Army.
Robert E. Lee
The bloodiest day in American history was during the Battle of...
Antietam
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in this state.
Pennsylvania
The war ended when General Lee surrendered at this place.
Appomattox Court House
The man who killed Lincoln five days after the war ended.
John Wilkes Booth
General who helped the Confederates win the first battle of the war.
"Stonewall" Jackson
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and separated the Confederacy in two.
The Battle of Vicksburg
The southern states had a shortage of food, which caused this.
Food riots
This helped the North win the war because it deprived the Confederacy of workers.
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln said this person caused this great big war because she wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
His March became famous for destroying property, railroads, and farms in the South.
Sherman
He led the failed assault against the Union at Gettysburg.
George Pickett
The reason westward expansion increased tensions
It could upset the balance between free and slave states.
The holiday that celebrates the ending of slavery.
Juneteenth
Lincoln kept these in his top hat.
Important papers