Civil War People
When he was elected President, southern/Democrat states began to secede
Who is Abe Lincoln?
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 event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
Which section of the United States is the Union?
The North
What was the result of the Union winning the Battle of Vicksburg?
Union control of the Mississippi River.
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
1)To get shoes
2)To win a victory in the north so the Union would give up
What is the purpose of Lee's trip to the North or Gettysburg?
The first battle shots that started the Civil War
What was the Fort Sumter?
Which section of the United States is the Confederacy?
The South
What 2 advantages did the Confederacy have in the Civil War?
Home field advantage & military leader.
President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The democrats in the North who wanted an immediate end to the war
Who were Copperheads?
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
The Union's Capital
What is Washington DC?
This was a law that required citizens to turn in people that they suspected of being a runaway slave.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Who was the main union general?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where?
What are states currently in rebellion/the confederacy?
What was the battle plan for surrounding the South and their ports to prevent the Confederacy from importing supplies
The Anaconda Plan
Which battle gave the North control of the Mississippi River?
Vicksburg
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
This was suspended in both regions, making unlawful arrests a possibility?
Habeas Corpus
General killed at Chancellorsville
Who was Stonewall Jackson?
This was Lincoln's motive behind the Emancipation Proclamation.
To encourage freed black, slaves from the south to support the Union/Shift the focus of the war to freedom
What is the name of the seceding states' new country?
The Confederate States of America
Which battle was the single bloodiest day battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
The Turning Point of the Civil War?
What is Gettysburg?
What was the name of slave states that stayed in the Union?
Border States