Civil War People
The President of the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union. [Vocabulary]
What is Secede?
The first state to secede.
What is South Carolina?
Where were the first shots of the civil war fired?
What is Fort Sumter?
This is the name of a person that wanted to end slavery. [Vocabulary]
What is an abolotionist?
These were the economies of each side of the country - North and South.
What is Industry for North and Agriculture for South?
Commander of the Conferedacy's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
The law that required all runaway slaves to be returned to their masters in the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This economic system began during Reconstruction, where former slaves fell into a cycle of debt working for former slave owners on their plantations.
What is sharecropping?
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war, is also the battle with the most overall casualties.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These laws limited the rights of former slaves, for example, making it illegal for them to be unemployed.
What are Black Codes?
Who won the Election of 1860?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The leading General of the Union Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
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?
The small battle that led to the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This government agency helped freed slaves get things like health care, jobs, and find their lost families.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The Southern states said they needed slavery for this reason.
What is for their economy?
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Name any 6 Confederate states
What are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
What years did the Civil War take place?
1861-1865
Explain how getting control of the Mississippi River gave an advantage for the Union.
What is cutting off the Confederacy from supplies, resources, etc?
Reconstruction started in 1865. This event finally ended it for the entire country in 1876.
What is the Texas Constitution of 1876?
What is states' rights?
President Lincoln's main goal throughout the entire war was to __________ _____ __________.
Preserve the Union, in other words keep the country together.
Name at least 3 reasons for the Civil War.
What are the impacts of tariffs; differences of their economies; the issue of states' rights; the issue of slavery; sectionalism; Uncle Tom's Cabin; the Election of 1860?
All Southern states had to include these items in their new constitutions during Reconstruction.
What is banning slavery and making secession illegal?
Battle where the Union took control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
Explain each of the Reconstruction Amendments (13, 14, 15).
What is 13th - Bans Slavery; 14th - Birthright Citizenship; 15th - All men right to vote?
Author Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this famous book that exposed the horrors on slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?