Civil War People
Leader of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the Union.
What is to secede?
The Union’s plan to blockade the South and control the Mississippi River was called this.
What is The Anaconda Plan
Someone who wants to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This 1852 novel increased Northern opposition to slavery.
Answer: What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The main goal of the Union at the start of the war.
What is to preserve the Union?
This Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.
What is the Battle/Siege of Vicksburg?
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1850 agreement admitted California as a free state and included a strict fugitive slave law.
Answer: What is the Compromise of 1850
Women often took on these roles while men were away fighting.
What are factory work, farming, or nursing?
This document declared that slaves in rebelling states were free from now on.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln's famous speech given November 19, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a cemetary.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This term describes loyalty to one’s region rather than the nation as a whole.
Answer: What is sectionalism
The violence that followed in Kansas earned this nickname.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”
Commander of the Union army at the time of surrender
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Name 3 Confederate states
What are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here in April 1861.
What is Fort Sumter
This type of transportation expanded rapidly in the North and helped move goods and people.
Answer: What are railroads
This idea claimed that states could ignore federal laws they believed were unconstitutional.
What is nullification
This martyr tried to start a slave rebellion but was captured and shot.
Who is John Brown?
Name four causes of the Civil War.
What are slavery, states' rights, sectionalism, and tariffs (nullification)?
This event in 1860 caused several Southern states to secede.
Answer: What is the election of Abraham Lincoln
This term describes the South’s dependence on one major crop, making its economy vulnerable.
What is "King Cotton"
This series of debates between two Illinois politicians focused heavily on slavery.
What are the Lincoln–Douglas Debates