Civil War Knowledge
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the deadliest battle in the war?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What word means the practice of owning people as property
Slavery
Who commanded the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
Ford's Theatre
What was the agreement that said Missouri was a slave state; while Main would be a free state?
The Missouri Compromise
Who was the president of the United States during the war?
Abraham Lincoln
What word means to withdraw from an organization or communion (South in the war)
Secede
Which army won the war?
the Union Army
Fort Sumter
What amendment was added to the Constitution after the war that freed slaves?
(Hint: double digit)
13th
Which battle is known as the turning point in the American Civil War?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What is an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot
Infantry
Ulysses S. Grant
Which southern city was a key city for the south?
Atlanta
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write about slavery?
(Hint: Uncle ...)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was the women who helped more than 300 enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What was called the secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War
The Underground Railroad
Which army was Abraham Lincoln wanting to win?
the Union Army
What was the order by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in the southern states still in the rebellion during the war?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What was the military strategy for the Union Army surrounding the borders like a snake called?
The Anaconda Plan
Who was the slave who sued for his freedom?
Dred Scott
What was the period before a war called?
Antebellum
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
When did the Civil War begin and end?
(Hint: above the 1850s)
1861–1865