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.
Secede
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
This battle caused Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and prevented foreign allies from supporting the Confederacy.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
The formal name adopted by the seceded states as they attempted to form their own country.
What is Confederate States of America?
The Union general, appointed commander of all Union forces in 1864, who later became President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
To support this means to want the immediate and complete end of slavery, everywhere.
What is abolition?
This event kicked off the Civil War; it was not considered an official 'battle', but was the first time shots were fired.
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
This 3 day battle was the deadliest conflict and largest battle in North American history.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The most important border state because it helped to protect the Union capital.
Two Northern advantages in the Civil War.
What are population, navy, industrialization, railroads? (any two)
Lincoln's assassin, he changed his plan from 'kidnap' to 'murder' when Lincoln publicly supported voting rights for Black men.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
A type of armored ship that the Union used to blockade the South and capture major rivers.
Ironclad
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a battlefield, in it, he dedicated the Union to a 'new birth of freedom'.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This was not a battle but a campaign, it was the first time that the Union used total war on a large scale.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
The theater where Lincoln was shot.
What is Ford's Theater?
A plan developed by the Union Army to blockade the Confederacy and cut it off from resources.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The head of the Army of Northern Virginia, this General was the Confederacy's most important commander.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward and forever.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Frederick Douglass, and eventually Abraham Lincoln, advocated for passing this Amendment which ended slavery forever.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Bloodiest SINGLE DAY battle in the war.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Sherman's March to the Sea ended in this city.
What is Savannah, GA?
The name of the policy, proposed by General Benjamin Butler, to avoid enforcing the Fugitive Slave Law during the Civil War.
What is 'contraband'?
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Mandatory military service; this was put into place in the North and the South.
What is a draft or conscription?
One way that a person could escape the draft/conscription in either the Union or Confederacy.
What is:
- Own 20 or more enslaved people (Confederacy)
- Pay $300 or a substitute to serve (Union)
This battle secured Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
Daily Double! All four border states, which remained in the Union despite the fact that were slave states.
What is Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri?
Lincoln's 1864 Vice-Presidential running mate; he was an former enslaver and Democrat.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
An infamously cautious Union general; he ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864.
Who is General McClellan?
Term that refers to all out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy's resources, such as crops and transportation and its people's will to fight.
What is Total War?
Daily Double! The region attempted to secede from a STATE to avoid seceding from the Union in 1861. They were finally accepted by the Union as a state in 1863.
What is West Virginia?
What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run?
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox Court House, VA?
Most Civil War soldiers died from disease; name two common ones.
What is dysentery(diarrhea), typhoid, pneumonia, malaria