Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
Explain what a siege is
What is an event where a city is surrounded until they surrender due to lack of supplies
This state was the first to secede in December of 1860
What is South Carolina?
The first major battle of the Civil War
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter? or Charleston, SC?
Which side called themselves the Confederacy
What is the South?
The Union general who later became President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
How did the Union keep the South from getting supplies during the war?
They blocked off water routes like sea ports and the Mississippi River
This 3 day battle was the deadliest conflict in North American history
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
Name 2 Northern advantages in the war.
What are population, technology, industrialization, travel routes?
The person who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and gave the Gettysburg Address
Who is Abraham Lincoln
When a state declares it is leaving the country
What is Secession / Seceding
Lincoln's speech given after a very important battle
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This battle was key to fulfill the Anaconda plan (taking the Mississippi river)
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
State where the Battle of Gettysburg took place.
What is Pennsylvania?
An event that changes how the war is going and who is winning overall
What is a turning point?
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This formerly enslaved person who later became a representative in the US Congress helped take over a Confederate ship and take it to the Union
Who is Robert Smalls?
TRUE or FALSE: over 600,000 people died during the Civil War
TRUE
Sherman's March to the Sea was mostly in this state
Geoorgia
Women had important roles during the war for these reasons
They were nurses, ran businesses/factories, and took care of crops on the home front. Some women also fought during the war disguised as men.
A famous abolitionist who promoted the inclusion of freed Black soldiers in the war effort
Who is Frederick DOuglass
The landscape and how it changes (especially hills/valleys/plains)
What is topography?
What happened at Appomattox, VA in April 1865
Robert E. Lee surrendered here
This event kicked off the Civil War
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
Name a slave state that stayed in the union (border state)
Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland
The most common cause of death during the war
What is disease/infection?