People
What was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Largest battle ever on American Soil
Gettysburg
This event occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg that led to 2/3rds of Lee's men dead
Picketts Charge
vocab- an action taken to prevent a possible future attack
preventive strike
Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Bloodiest Day in American History
Battle of Antietam
Issued on January 1, 1863. Freed all slaves in Confederate territory
Emancipation Proclamation
What political party turned into the Republican Party?
Whig
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
First Major battle of Civil War
Bull Run
What was the name of the North's Ironclad?
Monitor
Angry that Kentucky would not secede, he declared himself a Texan
John Bell Hood
He earned the nickname Stonewall after his great victory at the Battle of Bull Run.
Thomas Jackson
turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
General Robert E. Lee called who his finest soldiers
John Bell Hood's Men
This was passed abolishing slavery
13th amendment
Who wrote the inspiring song, Battle Hymn of the Republic
Julia Ward Howe
The last battle of the war was fought where?
Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville
Who served in more battles than any other cavalry regiment in the Civil War.
Terry’s Texas Rangers
Which side one the Battle of Antietam
no one
How many days after Lee's surrender did Abraham Lincoln die?
6 days