Important Moments During the War
Where Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant, ending the Civil War.
What was the Appomattox Court House?
The battle that marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What was Fort Sumter?
General of the Union Army
Who was Ulysses S Grant?
The south needed these to work on their plantations.
Who were slaves?
A person who is opposed to slavery.
Who is an abolotionist?
This destroyed everything from Atlanta to Savannah.
What was Sherman's March to Sea?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Bull Run?
General of the Confederate Army
Who was Robert E. Lee?
An abolitionist wrote this book, which shed light on the true living conditions of slaves in the south.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
To withdraw or leave from.
This cancelled the Missouri Compromise that had kept slave and free states balanced, because this act allowed settlers to decide if slavery would be allowed in two new territories.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The MAJOR turning point of the Civil War for the Union happened here.
What was Gettysburg?
First and only President of the Confederate States
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The Democrats split their votes between two candidates, allowing Abraham Lincoln to win.
What was the Election of 1860?
The name for someone from the North.
What is a Yankee?
Allowed Missouri to be admitted into the United States as a slave state and Maine to be admitted as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The battle where the Union took over the Mississippi River and stopped the movement of supplies to the south.
An abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who was Harriett Beecher Stowe?
This was placed on imports and the south refused to pay.
What was a tariff?
What are tariffs?
An announcement made by President Lincoln, making slavery illegal in Confederate States.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This battle created momentum for the Union and allowed Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
A politician whose goal was to unify the nation prior to the civil war.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The word for the south breaking away from the Union because they wanted each state to make their own decisions while the north wanting a strong federal government.
What is secession?
When regional interests outweigh national interests.
What is sectionalism?