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This man was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first state to secede from the Union.
What was South Carolina?
This was the first battle of the American Civil War.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
In the Election of 1860, this man was elected as the President of the United States, sparking increased tensions between the North and the South.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A state that allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union.
What is a border state?
Who believed in total war and led the March to Sea from Atlanta to Savannah?
General William T. Sherman
The assassination of President Lincoln on April 14, 1865 occurred at this theater.
What was Ford's Theater?
Name one advantage the Union had during the Civil War.
Money, trains, weapons, ships, large population, factories
Who wrote the famous book that exposed the cruelties of slavery and what was that book called?
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The murder of a political or government leader
What is assassination?
This man was a famous Union general who Lee surrendered to at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What were the Confederates fighting for?
The right to own slaves
Name one advantage that the South had during the war.
Better generals, military colleges, home turf
These sets of laws established California as a free state, the territories of Utah and New Mexico as slave-holding, the end of the slave trade in Washington D.C., and the Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy by "squeezing" them in
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This man was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam?
To free all slaves in the rebellious states
What was the purpose of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?
Mark a great victory for the Union, honor fallen soldiers, and inspire the North
Name the two slave rebellions that were causes of the Civil War.
Nat Turner's Rebellion and John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
A secret network of routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada.
What is Underground Railroad?
This man assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Name one way that women helped during the war.
- Took care of homes, businesses, and farms
- Spies
-Dressed as men and fought
- Sent food and supplies
This battle was the bloodiest in the whole Civil War and was a turning point for the Union army.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
What was the importance of the Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court decision in 1857?
The Supreme Court decided black people were not citizens and could not sue in court, and slaves that lived in free territories could not become citizens.
A method of warfare used to destroy the opposing army and the people's will to fight
What is total war?