Causes and Division
This was the first state to secede after Lincoln's election.
Who is South Carolina?
This South Carolina fort was attacked in April 1861, beginning the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
This document declared enslaved people in rebelling states free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Before ending slavery, Lincoln's main goal when he first became president was preserving this.
What is the union / preventing secession
This technology posed a threat to blockades and was the first of its kind in naval warfare
What is the submarine?
How many states followed South Carolina after its secession
what is 6?
This battle became the bloodiest single day in American military history.
What is Antietam
This famous Black Union regiment fought at Fort Wagner.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment
Lincoln was assassinated at this Washington, D.C. theater.
What is Ford's Theater
Both Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant attended this Military academy
What is West Point
This 1859 attacker of Harpers Ferry was viewed by some as a martyr and by others as a terrorist.
Who is John Brown?
This Union strategy called for a Southern blockade and control of the Mississippi River. Wanted to "squeeze" the south.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This secret system allowed for the escape of 100,000+ runaway slaves with secret codes and travel paths.
What is the Underground Railroad
This Confederate general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House & was seen as the most dominant Confederate leader throughout the war.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Who was the president for the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This compromise used the 36°30′ line to divide future slave and free territory.
The 1820 Missouri Compromise
Lincoln often became frustrated with this Union general because he was cautious and slow to attack.
General George McClellan
A slave in a border state that was in support of the union, free or not free?
What is not free
Lincoln gave this short speech after the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This was actually the leading killer of Civil War soldiers, not battlefield weapons.
what is disease
Under the Compromise of 1850, this state entered the Union as a free state.
What is California?
This Union general used a strategy of total war during his march through the South.
"_________'s Neckties were pieces of railroad tracks heated up and twisted around trees to show the Union's dominance during _________'s March to the Sea."
General Sherman
"Sherman's Neckties"
A slave in virginia, a confederate controlled state. Free or not free?
What is free
Lincoln was elected in ____ and ____.
What is 1860 and 1864
This Confederate prison camp became infamous for overcrowding, hunger, disease, and thousands of deaths.
What is Andersonville Prison camp