Civil War Leaders
Beloved Confederate General who didn't want to fight against his home state of Virginia
Robert E. Lee
What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War? (the turning point of the war)
Gettysburg
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th
What was the name of Lincoln's plan that was very lenient towards Confederate states rejoining the Union?
Ten (10%) Plan
Which one of Lincoln's speeches freed the slaves in the 'states that were in rebellion'?
Emancipation Proclamation
Union General at the end of the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant
First LAND battle of the War
Bull Run
What area of the United States became an industrial powerhouse?
The North!
What was the name of the act that allowed Kansas & Nebraska to choose whether or not they would allow slavery in their states? (aka POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who faced a lot of poverty & hunger because of the war?
Women
Who said "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war"?
Bonus 300pts if you can tell me the name of the speech
Abraham Lincoln
Opening confrontation of the War
Fort Sumter
What amendment granted the right to vote to Black men?
15th
What compromise created a line that stated anything above it would be a free state & anything below it would be a slave state?
Missouri, 36'30 N
Who were paid LESS than their white counterparts when serving in the war?
Black soldiers (both for the Union AND the Confederacy)
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
What was the bloodiest DAY of the war?
Battle of Antietam
Which group in Congress wanted harsher punishments for the South? (hint: impeached Andrew Johnson)
Radical Republicans
Why did the Southern states adopt fugitive slave laws? (hint: think Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, John Brown)
Slave rebellions
Who was a former slave that fought for abolition & then civil rights for African Americans?
Frederick Douglass
Beloved Confederate General who was wounded in battle & died 8 days later
Stonewall Jackson
What battle finished the DAY AFTER Gettysburg? It officially cut the Confederacy in half.
Vicksburg
What amendment granted birthright citizenship? (reverses Dred Scott)
14th
True or False: Public spaces under 'separate but equal' were separate but actually NOT equal.
TRUE
What book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was meant to sway Northerners that slavery was morally wrong?
Uncle Tom's Cabin