Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
an act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
Blockade
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
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?
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?
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 document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863
What is the Gettysburg Address?
What mini battle happened in Kansas before the Civil War started?
Bleeding Kansas
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia and Delaware
What are slave states that remained in the union?
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
Mandatory military service; this was put into place in the North and the South
What is a draft?
Abraham got elected as president without being an option in the South; making the South feel unheard.
Election of 1860
Bloodiest SINGLE DAY battle in the war
What is the Battle of Antietam
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
The capital city of the Confederate States
What was Richmond, Virginia?
An infamously cautious Union general; He was removed from his post after the Battle of Antietam
Who is General McClellan?
Slavery is a condition in which one human being was owned by another.
Slavery
Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa; these states are collectively called?
The Union
Name of the abolitionist that raided an armory in Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia collectively are called?
The Confederacy
The most common cause of death during the war
What is disease/infection?