Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
Seized possessions and property during war; the north argued slaves were this and could be freed.
What is contraband?
The first 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?
This event kicked off the Civil War
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
The capital of the Union
What is Washington, DC
Northern advantages in the war.
What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads?
He shouted "thus always to tyrants" after he shot the President.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
This OFFICIALLY ended slavery in the United States....
13th Amendment
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Where the Battle of Gettysburg took place.
What is Pennsylvania?
A new type of gun that replaced muskets during the war
What is a rifle?
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?
Lincoln suspended this constitutional right at the beginning of the war
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman?
Mandatory military service; this was put into place in the North and the South
What is a draft?
Bloodiest SINGLE DAY battle in the war
What is the Battle of Antietam
Name a slave state that stayed in the union....
Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland
The most common cause of death during the war
What is disease/infection?
An infamously cautious Union general; He was removed from his post after the Battle of Antietam
Who is General McClellan?
When the military attacks both civilian and military targets...
Total War
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
What was in Gettysburg that lured Lee and his men there?
Shoe factory