Leaders
This general was the leader of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This act made the North responsible for capturing slaves who had escaped to the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This battle is known as a turning point during the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
The election of this year was the final cause of the Civil War.
What is 1860?
This word means freeing the slaves.
What is abolition?
He was the President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This event dedicated a battlefield to the soldiers who had died there.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This battle is known as the single deadliest day in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The goal of this man's raid on Harper's Ferry was to distribute weapons to slaves in order to cause a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
A Supreme Court case denied this man his freedom because the court ruled that, as a slave, he had no right to sue his master.
Who is Dredd Scott?
He was the leader of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S Grant
This event said that all slaves in rebellious states are forever freed from slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
When the Civil War began, this was the main goal of Abraham Lincoln.
What is saving the Union?
This cause of the Civil War allowed states to vote on whether or not they should have slavery. It also led to "Bleeding Kansas."
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This word means that states had the right to vote on whether or not they allowed slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
He was a General famous for his March to the Sea.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, showed the country how bad slavery really was.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This was the plan that the Union created to defeat the Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
As part of the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was allowed to join the Union as a slave state. This state was also allowed to join as a free state.
What is Maine?
Lincoln's Debates with this man gave him national fame.
Who is Steven Douglas?
He was the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This fort was bombarded by the Confederacy, which marked the official start to the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the first ground battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This major cause of the Civil War outlawed trading slaves in Washington D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This was a new type of bullet that made the weapons of the Civil War much deadlier.
What is the Minie Ball?