Important Leaders
President of the United States of America.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Main cause of war.
What is Slavery?
The first major land battle.
What was the Battle of Manassas? (Bull Run)
Abraham Lincoln delivered this famous address on November 19, 1863.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
South Carolina leaving the Union or blank influenced other south states to follow and join the Confederacy.
What was their secession?
This battle is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was the capitol of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond?
This Union leader later became the President of the USA.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What caused many south states to fear that they would lose their way of life.
What was the election of 1860? (When Lincoln got elected)
This battle was the bloodiest single day battle in American history.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This state was the last to secede from the Union.
What is North Carolina?
This Confederate leader led the Army of Northern Virginia until they surrendered.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Kansas was nicknamed this because of all the fights over whether they should have slaves or not.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The Confederates originally had some success in this battle, but on the second day they lost.
What was the Battle of Shiloh?
This helped Lincoln to get re-elected.
What was the Union's victory in Atlanta?
This Confederate leader was one of the best commander after Robert E. Lee
Who was Stonewall Jackson?
This caused lots of a lot of new states to join the US and agruements about whether they should be free or not happened often.
What was Expansion?
This is considered the final battle.
What was the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
This Union leader got shot in the eye after saying that," They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
Who was General John Sedgwick?