Why did the Civil War Happen?
The labor issue that divided the North and the South.
Slavery
The battle that started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Population, Industry, Railroads, Navy, and Resources
Reasons the Union won the war.
The name the 11 Southern states used after secession.
Confederate States of America
The multiple attempts to deal with the issue of slavery prior to the Civil War.
Compromises
The official first battle of the Civil War.
First Battle of Bull Run Creek
Commander of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
Proclamation that permitted 180,000 black men to enlist and fight for the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
The location where Lee surrendered to Grant to signify the end of the Civil War.
Appomattox Court House
The concept that the federal government should not have rights over the states.
State's Rights
Bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
One of the Union's most successful military commanders.
Ulysses S. Grant
Amendment that abolished slavery in the South after the Civil War.
13th Amendment
The March through Georgia led by William Tecumseh Sherman and 60,000 Union troops.
March to the Sea
The concept that Americans stay loyal to their area or section of the country.
Sectionalism
Battle at Gettysburg
General for the Confederates who was given the nickname "Stonewall" during the First Battle at Bull Run.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Lincoln's Plan for Reconstruction after the Civil War
Ten Percent Plan
The first all black regiment who carried out the attack on Fort Wagner.
54th Massachusetts Regiment
The political figure who opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories.
Abraham Lincoln
Campaign that led troops through the South destroying railroads, telegraph lines and plantations.
Sherman's March to the Sea
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Jefferson Davis
Laws that severely restricted the rights of African Americans in the South
Black Codes
Escaped slave who became famous for helping enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman