Civil War 1
President of the Union?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The side of the Civil War that called itself the Confederacy?
What are The Southern states that seceded from the United States?
Term for when a nation fights itself.
What is a civil war?
The event that marked the beginning of the civil war.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
General Robert E. Lee.
Who is the Confederacy General for the army?
The number of years "Four Score and Seven".
What is 87 years?
Battle in the open scene of Glory.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The battle Lee tried to take the fight to the North. The bloodiest battle of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
The Nickname for North Carolinians in the Civil War.
Who are the Tar Heels?
The reality versus the film's depiction of the soldiers in the 54th Regiment.
Who are free black men in the NOrth?
What was the biggest Southern advantage during the War?
great military leaders and a trained army
Lincoln's initial goal when he was elected president regarding slavery.
What is limiting slavery and preventing it from expanding west?
"Reconstruction" - define it
What is the name given to the period after the Civil War in which the country was trying to heal and rebuild
Confederate General Thomas Jackson's nickname.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
The amendment that extended voting rights to African Americans.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Robert Shaw.
Who is the Colonel and commander of the 54th Regiment?
The first great battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Two Bloodiest Battles in the Civil War
What are Gettysburg and Antietam?
Name one example of Civil War technology.
What is:
Iron Clad
Rifling / repeating rifles
Submarine
Exploding shells
The year Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army surrendered
When is 1865?
The first of the Southern States to secede.
What is South Carolina?
What was the purpose of the Gettysburg address?
What is dedicate Gettysburg as a battlefield?
Definition of secede.
What is to break away from, to remove oneself from something?
The battle that is considered the "turning point" of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg (or Vicksburg)?
The South reasons to go to war
What are states' rights and way of life -
What is the right to own slaves?
Who was the abolitionist who attacked Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
The Union general "marched to sea" in Georgia?
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman
Pvt. Tripp's reason for leaving the camp?
What are clean or newer shoes?
Jefferson Davis
Who is the President of the Confederacy?
Connection between the Battle of Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 54th Regiment?
What is allowing African Americans to fight in the Civil War?
The former slave turned freed man who's court case went to the Supreme Court before the Civil War. They determined slaves have no rights of citizenship.
Who is Dred Scott?
The major reason the Southern States finally decided to secede.
What is The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860?
Person who said: “For my part I can’t see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been, there remain no slaves, and the Proclamation will not free them where we don’t go"
Who is Colonel Robert Shaw?
The man who became President after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Vice President, Andrew Johnson?
The opportunity that The Battle of Antietam provided for Lincoln.
What is issuing the Emancipation Proclamation?
Capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond?
Place of Confederate Army Surrender.
Where is Appomattox, Virginia?
Governor of Massachusetts in Glory?
Who is John Andrew?
The Amendments passed during the Reconstruction Acts that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
General who made up the Anaconda Plan?
Who is General Winfield Scott?
What is one of the events that led up to the Civil War?
What is:
Differences between the North and South
Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott Decision
Election of 1860
The name for a person who tries to abolish, or get rid of, slavery.
Who is an Abolitionist