Civil War Vocabulary
Compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is Compromise of 1850?
What was the "total war" campaign that ran from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia?
Sherman's March to the Sea
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield"?
Clara Barton
Constitutional amendment that granted freedom to all Americans who suffered involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What was the very first battle?
Ft. Sumter
Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
Appomattox Courthouse
The General who is famous for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William T. Sherman?
Who was the commanding officer of all Confederate Troops?
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Robert E.Lee
Who attacked a Southern town on his own and got the South worried?
John Brown
What is it called when a region believes its needs are more important than that the nation's needs.
Sectionalism
What was the bloodiest single day in American history?
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Antietam
What was the first state to secede?
South Carolina
Who was the final General-in-Chief of the Union Army?
Grant
A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Who was the Superem court Justice who made the Dred Scott Decision?
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Tawney
When a state ignores a federal law. For example, the tariffs on imported goods.
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What is nullification?
What was the first major land battle that proved to both sides that the war would be long and bloody?
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First Battle of Bull Run
He was appointed President after the President before him was assasinated by John Wilks Booth.
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Who is Andrew Johnson?
Who was the Confederate General at Bull Run who stood his ground and earned a nickname?
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Thomas Stonewall Jackson
Name for people who smuggled escaped slaves north as part of a planned team?
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Conductors
Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the Union strategy during the Civil War which incorporated a plan to blockade Southern ports, capture the Mississippi River and capture the railroads?
Anaconda Plan?
This Union Victory gave them control of the Mississippi River cutting the Confederacy in half.
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Siege of Vicksburg
Who was the General for the Confederates that held his ground during the Battle of Bull Run and inspired the troops?
Stonewall Jackson
These two people escaped slavery and went on to help others - one through writing and speech and the other as part of the Underground Railroad.
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
What battle was the "High Water Mark" of the Confederacy; Lee's second invasion of the North failed turning the tide for the Union?
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Gettysburg
How did the Dred Scott case help Lincoln with the Emancipation?
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Dred Scott was "property."
In this battle, only one horse was killed, no one else.
Ft. Sumter
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
He led a slave rebellion, but was later caught and hanged.
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Nat Turner
He tried to run to Texas to gather troops to help him keep the War going.
Jefferson Davis