Leaders
He was the President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is The Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)?
The major issue dividing the North and South involved this system of forced labor.
What is slavery?
Soldiers often lived in these temporary military living areas.
What are camps?
The Northern states were called this.
What is the Union?
He led the Confederate Army and later surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
Southern states left the Union in a process called this.
What is secession?
This new medical technology helped wounded soldiers communicate from far away.
What is the telegraph?
The Southern states were called this.
What is the Confederacy?
This Union general eventually defeated Robert E. Lee and became president later.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is The Battle of Vicksburg?
This compromise attempted to balance free and slave states in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Women often served as these, helping care for injured soldiers.
What are nurses?
Lincoln’s order freeing enslaved people in Confederate states was called this.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
At this battle, Abraham Lincoln later gave a famous speech.
What is Gettysburg?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Because many men fought in the war, women often took over these places.
What are farms and businesses?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Union general was known for his “March to the Sea.”
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This battle ended with Robert E. Lee surrendering to Grant signing a treaty at this location?
What is Appomattox Court House?
This event in Kansas became known as “Bleeding Kansas” because of violence over this issue.
What is slavery in new territories?
Shortages in the South forced people to sometimes use substitutes for this popular drink.
What is coffee?
The period of rebuilding the South after the Civil War was called this.
What is Reconstruction?