Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
What is Secede
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
Where the first shots were fired in the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
A compromise in 1820 added these two states to the Union, one as a slave state and the other as a free state.
What are Missouri and Maine
What were 2 Northern advantages in the war.
What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads?
Took full command of the South's Confederate Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
The color of the Union soldiers' uniforms and the color of the Confederate soldiers' uniforms.
What are Blue and Gray
A border state between Pennsylvania and Virginia
What is Maryland
What were 2 southern advantages in the war?
What are Knew the land, only fought defensively.
Nickname given to northern soldiers
What are Yanks
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
What battle caused more casualties than any other day of the war.
What is Antietam
John Brown raided a federal armoury here in 1859 to start a rebellion to free the slaves.
What is Harper's Ferry, VA
This was a law that required citizens to turn in people that they suspected of being a runaway slave.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Union general who had command of the North's Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where?
What are states currently in rebellion, or the states that seceded?
By July of 1861, how many states were part of the Confederacy just prior to the first battle?
What is 11
Battle in Pennsylvania that was considered the turning point in the war.
What is Gettysburg
The capital of the Confederated States of America.
What is Richmond, VA
The rule in Congress that said Congresspeople couldn't talk about ending slavery in Congress.
What is The Gag Rule
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman?
The year that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
What is 1863
Battle that gave North control of the Mississippi and divided the South.
What is Vicksburg
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
What is Appomattox, VA?
Name at least 2 of the border states (slave states that stayed in the Union).
What are Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, WV