General Information
What day did the Civil War begin?
What is April 12, 1861
Who won the battle of Gettysburg?
What is the Union or North?
He was the Commander of Confederate forces and later surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
What is Robert E. Lee?
To break away from a group
What is secede?
Who came up with the idea for the Missouri Compromise?
Who is Henry Clay?
What was created to help poor white people and newly freed slaves by giving out medical care, food, clothing, and shelter. Plus, it set up schools in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
How long did the civil war last?
What is 4 years?
This is where the Civil War began. Confederates attacked because the union refused to surrender. Four states seceded and West Virginia decided to break away from Virginia.
What is Fort Sumter?
President of the U.S. during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in the states that seceded. He tried to keep the nation united.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
When people are loyal to their part of the country. This feeling is called ________________________. This feeling is known as one of the reasons for the Civil War
What is sectionalism?
She was the conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
President Lincoln gave this speech at a ceremony to dedicate a cemetery for fallen soldiers. It is known as one of the most famous speeches in American history. It begins by saying, "Four Score and Seven Years ago Our Father Brought Forth"
What is the Gettysburg Address?
When did the Civil War end?
What is April 9, 1865?
General Sherman's union troops marched to Atlanta where they fought fiercely with Confederate troops. This was known as the
What is the Atlanta Campaign?
The 1st and only President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What did the South feel was essential to their economy?
What is slavery?
Union and Confederate forces clashed in this first land battle of the Civil War. Even though the Confederate army was victorious, it let everyone know this war would not be easy.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
President Lincoln declared that all slaves in the rebellious states were free when he signed the
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
They wanted slavery to end.
Who is abolitionist?
This was a 3 day battle in Pennsylvania that the South (Confederates) lost. However, many people on both sides lost their lives. It was considered the turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
He was the Union General that later became President of the United States
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
The first state to secede from the Union was
What is South Carolina?
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. There was no clear winner. This battle gave Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antienam
General Grant met General Lee here to discuss the terms of the Confederate surrender
What is Appomattox Court House?
What was the main goal of Reconstruction?
What is they wanted to reunite the north and the south?
This was a 300 mile march through Georgia. Sherman and his men burned everything in their path, hoping to scare soldiers into leaving the Confederacy. This was known as
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
President Lincoln was assassinated by
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
What did the nineteenth amend allow?
What is women the right to vote?
This is when the Union took control of the Mississippi River, which cut off supplies to the South until the Confederates finally surrendered
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
The Missouri Compromise wanted to
What is to keep the free states and slave states balanced?
The system of farming where plantation owners would lend previously enslaved people a place to live, seeds, farm equipment, and other tools in return for farming crops was called
What is sharecropping?
Their plan was known as the Anaconda Plan because they intended to surround the enemy and cut off all their imports and exports.
What is the Union?
I became the President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. I was the first president to be impeached by the House of Representatives but acquitted by the Senate, and I declared secession to be illegal.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The law that kept African Americans from having full rights and it kept them from using the same services and places that whites
What are the Jim Crow Laws
Which side planned to defend their lands against attacks until the other side wore down.
What is the Confederacy?
This amendment granted citizenship to African Americans.
What is the 14th amanedment?