Battles
The location of the first Civil War battle.
What is Fort Sumter?
slavery, seccession, sectionalism
What are causes of the Civil War?
A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped turn many people against slavery as it told about the reality of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who was Millard Fillmore?
This side in the war had the advantage of strong military leadership.
What is the South?
Took place in Virginia and showed the Union that the war was not going to be a quick win.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This West Point graduate from Virginia led the Confederate Army
Who is Robert E Lee?
This act repealed the Missouri Compromise and led to violence in Kansas.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
He died in office after serving for 16 months and was the 12th president who did not want to see the expansion of slavery westward.
This side had the advantage of resources.
What is the North?
It was a 3 day battle that was a turning point and was followed by an address given by President Lincoln.
What is Gettysburg?
This man led the Union army in March of 1864 after successes in the Battles of Vicksburg and Shiloh.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
This court case decided that African Americans did not have a right to sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott v Sandford?
As the 14th president, he served during the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act which led to Bleeding Kansas.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
What is Seneca Falls Convention of 1848?
What is Appomattox Court House?
He led the Confederacy and was imprisoned after the war.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This abolitionist led the raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
As our 15th president he was the last president before the start of the Civil War.
Who is James Buchanan?
This proclamation freed all enslaved people living in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War that took place in Maryland.
What is Battle of Antietam?
spying, nursing, working in factories, fighting
What are jobs women did during the Civil War?
John Bell, John Breckenridge, Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln
Who were candidates for president in 1860?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The south was appeased in the Compromise of 1850 because of this act.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?