important people
The 16th president of the United States during the civil war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What was the first battle of bull run?
The name of the northern side during the Civil War
What is the union?
The system called where people were treated as property and forced to work
What is slavery?
The year that the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
The president of the confederate states of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The battle in Pennsylvania that became one of the bloodiest and most important, turning points of the war.
What was the battle of Gettysburg?
The name of the southern side that seceded.
What is the confederacy?
The name of the network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The southern state that was the first to succeed from the union
What is South Carolina?
The union general that eventually became the 18th U.S. President.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The fort that had the first shots of the Civil War occur.
What was Fort Sumter?
The main issue that divided the north and south before the war
What is slavery?
The person that issued the emancipation proclamation in 1863
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The year that the Civil War officially ended.
What is 1865?
the confederate general who surrendered to Ulysses S. grant at Appomattox.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The 1862 battle that was the bloodiest single day in American military history.
What was the battle of Antietam?
The amount of states that originally seceded from the United States to form the Confederacy.
What is seven states?
The amendment that officially abolished slavery throughout the United States
What is the 13th amendment?
The Virginia location where Robert E Lee surrendered to ulysses S Grant.
What is the Appomattox court house?
The formerly enslaved woman who helped hundreds escape through the underground railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The union general that led a destructive march through Georgia in 1864
Who was William tecumseh Sherma?
The four additional states that joined the confederacy after the war began
What are Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
The name of the movement led by people who wanted to end slavery
What is the abolitionist movement?
Period of American history that focused on rebuilding the south and restoring the union after the Civil War.
What is reconstruction Period.