Civil War People
The American President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
The first conflict of the Civil War. Took place in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
This side called themselves the Confederate States of America.
What is the South?
This branch of government is responsible for enforcing laws.
What is the Executive Branch?
The Union general who later became President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This term means you are leaving a larger group.
What is secession?
This battle, which took place in Pennsylvania, is often considered to be the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This novel inspired many people to become abolitionists based on the portrayal of slavery within it.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This invention allowed for fast long-distance communication via morse code.
What is the telegraph?
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
He attacked the armory at Harpers Ferry to capture weapons to fight against slavery.
What is John Brown?
This event caused the South to secede from the Union.
What is Lincoln's election?
The economy of the Southern states was based on this product.
What is cotton?
This President is on the $20 bill and helped remove property requirements from voting.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
A Virginian who turned down the job from the Northern Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is manifest destiny?
The new state created when Virginia seceded from the United States.
What is West Virginia?
This state was the site of a pre-Civil War battle where pro- and anti-slavery forces battled each other, known as Bleeding __________.
What is Kansas?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!
This is the title of the Train Book. (Closest guess wins!)
This individual was a slave who sued for his freedom after traveling to a free state.
Who is Dred Scott?
This is the name of the plan used by the Union that tried to "strangle" the South with a naval blockade.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This state was involved in a compromise where states south of it would allow slavery while states north of it would not.
What is Missouri?
This region of the country, bought by Thomas Jefferson, was the location of conflict over free and slave states entering the Union.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This state was an independent country for a decade before entering the Union in 1845. The U.S. fought a war with Mexico over it.
What is Texas?