Terms
What was the North called during the Civil War?
Union
What color did the Union troops wear?
Blue
What 2 states brought about the Missouri Compromise?
Maine and Missouri
Where was the first battle of the Civil War fought?
Fort Sumter
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What are the South's two main crops?
cotton and tobacco
What color did the Confederate troops wear?
Grey
Which was a slave state: Maine or Missouri?
Missouri
Who won the battle between the Merrimac and the Monitor?
neither!
What was the President in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the name of the Southern ironclad?
Merrimac
What were the Northern troops called?
Yankees
What served as the capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond
What battle was the turning point of the war?
Gettysburg
Who was elected president of the confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What did the Emancipation Proclamation ensure?
That England would not help the South
Who founded the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
Who was the first state to leave the Union?
South Carolina
What battle put the Mississippi River under Northern control?
Vicksburg
Who became president after Lincoln's death?
Andrew Johnson
What were the years of the Civil War?
1861-1865
What was George Washington Carver's lab called?
Where was the site of Lee's surrender to Grant?
Appomattox Courthouse
What did the North set up in the ocean along the South?
blockades
What general led a destructive march to sea?
Sherman