Civil War People
The 16th president of the U.S. (7.3)
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first shots of the war were fired here (The first battle that started the war) (7.3)
What is Fort Sumter?
This was given out in the North and South during the war to help the economy and finance the war (7.5)
What is paper money?
Ownership of human beings, it was the primary cause of the Civil War (7.1)
What is slavery?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860 (7.1)
What is secede? (officially leave the United States)
A Missouri slave who sued for his freedom in 1857 (7.2)
Who is Dred Scott?
The collection of 11 Southern states that seceded (7.1)
What is the Confederacy?
This was seized by Southern leaders during the war (7.5)
What is private property?
The movement to end slavery (7.1)
What is abolition?
The siege of a Southern stronghold in Mississippi (7.6)
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
A Confederate general who surrendered at a Virginia courthouse (7.3)
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The first major battle of the war was fought here (This was also the first land battle near Washington D.C. during the Civil War) (7.3)
What is Bull Run?
This was also issued to citizens who paid it to finance the war (7.5)
What are war bonds?
This famous speech helped start healing the wounds of the Civil War for both the North and South (7.6)
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The bloodiest 3-days in American history (Confederates fought on Northern territory after which Lincoln gave a speech) (7.6)
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
He debated Lincoln on the issue of popular sovereignty in 1858 (7.2)
Who is Stephen Douglas?
On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered in this settlement in a house owned by a farmer named Wilmer McLean (7. 7)
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Clara Barton started this American organization when she was a battlefield nurse, trying to help wounded soldiers (7.5)
What is the Red Cross?
This declared slaves in rebellion states to be freed in an effort to deprive the Confederacy of its workforce (7.4)
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The War ended this year (7.7)
What is 1865?
The 15th President of the U.S. right before Lincoln who did not do much to stop sectionalism (7.2)
Who is James Buchanan?
This site was the scene of a raid led by abolitionist John Brown (7.2)
What is Harpers' Ferry?
The Union blocked the Confederacy from getting these (7.5)
What are supplies (clothes, weapons, etc.)?
Sherman and Grant used this tactic of not only fighting the army, but destroying the civilian's ability to support the army (7.6)
What is total war?
The War began this year (7.3)
What is 1861?