Facts
Who helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad?
Bonus 100 pts: What was her nickname?
Harriet Tubman
Moses
What was the spark to the Civil War?
Bonus 100 pts: Who won?
Fort Sumter
Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis? Union or Confederacy?
President of the Confederacy
What was the underground railroad?
A network of paths to bring runaway slaves to freedom.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required anyone to return them to slaveholders
Name 2 jobs/roles women played in the war.
Nurses, spies, soldiers
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
Bonus 100 pts: Who won?
Gettysburg
Union
McClellan, Burnside, Hooker
What was "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Bonus 100 pts: Who wrote it?
Book describing the horrors of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the battle that ended the war called?
What state was the first to secede from the Union?\
Bonus 100 pts: What was the last state to secede?
South Carolina
Bonus: North Carolina
What was the bloodiest day of the Civil War?
Bonus 100 pts: Who won?
Bonus 100 pts: How many people died in a single day?
Antietam
"Union"
23,000 people
Who was the greatest general of the Union and Confederacy?
Union: Ulysses S. Grant
Confederacy: Robert E. Lee
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Maine would be free and Missouri would be slave; line stretching under Missouri (above free, below slave)
What was the first official battle of the Civil War?
Bull Run
What does "total war" mean?
Combat waged against military targets and the civilian population.
Why was the Siege of Vicksburg important? What did the Union gain?
Bonus 100 pts: Where was the battle fought?
Mississippi River
Tennessee
How did Stonewall Jackson get his name and during which battle?
Battle of Bull Run and he and his men would not let the Union Soldiers advance past them
What happened during the Dred Scott vs. Sanford Supreme Court case?
The case that ruled that slaves were property and could not sue, Scott was denied freedom
What was John Brown's Raid? Was it successful?
He and his men took over the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hopes of starting a slave rebellion (it failed)
What does popular sovereignty mean?
Government based on the consent of the people/the people vote on a decision.
What battle was Stonewall Jackson killed and Hooker's indecisiveness cost the Union the battle?
Bonus 100 pts: How was he killed?
Chancellorsville
Friendly fire
Who marched his troops through Georgia, burning/destroying towns as they went to Savannah?
William T. Sherman
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Bonus 100 pts: What was nickname was Kansas given?
a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery (popular sovereignty)
Bleeding Kansas
What was the Gettysburg Address & Emancipation Proclamation?
Bonus 100 pts: After which battle was the Emancipation Proclamation published?
Lincoln's speech to honor fallen soldiers,
Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
Battle of Antietam