People of the Civil War
President of the United States during the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
1st battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
What is 'secede'?
Freed all slaves
What is the 13th amendment?
This agreement allowed California to join the Union as a free state and passed the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle at Gettysburg?
This was written to highlight the cruelties of slavery
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
The south was broken up into 5 of these to make sure they were following the laws.
What are military zones?
This was the main cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
Commander of the American army during the Civil War
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle divided the Confederacy in half and gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This was issued by Abraham Lincoln and freed all slaves in the rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Gave the right to vote to African American men
What is the 14th amendment?
This supreme court case stated that slaves were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
He surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse, officially ending the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
First African American senator
The message of this was to preserve the Union.
What is Lincoln's 1st inaugural address?
He was a United States seaman who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his role in the Civil War.
Who is Philip Bazaar?
This speech by Abraham Lincoln was issued to motivate Americans to continue to fight to honor those who have died in the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This directly led to South Carolina seceding from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860?
OR
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This allowed for African Americans to be protected by the U.S. Constitution.
What is the 14th amendment?
In this, Lincoln stated that we must forgive the South in order to reform the Union.
What is Lincoln's 2nd inaugural address?