Causes of the Civil War
The growing division between the North and South over slavery, economics, and states’ rights.
What is sectionalism?
The president elected in 1860 whose victory prompted several Southern states to secede.
The first major land battle of the Civil War, fought in Virginia in July 1861.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)?
People who served in the military during the Civil War.
Who are soldiers?
The year the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
The debate over whether slavery would be allowed in land acquired by the United States.
What is slavery in the territories?
The act of formally withdrawing from the United States, carried out by Southern states before and during the Civil War.
What is secession?
The 1863 battle in Pennsylvania that became a major turning point in the war in the East.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The group of people who provided medical care, supplies, and other support to wounded soldiers.
Who are nurses?
Robert E. Lee ___________ his main army to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
What is surrendered?
The 1850 agreement that admitted California as a free state and included a stricter law requiring the return of escaped enslaved people.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The South Carolina fort attacked in April 1861, marking the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The general who led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during Gettysburg.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
These shortages affected food, clothing, medicine, and other supplies, especially in the South.
What are wartime shortages?
The Union victory at this Mississippi stronghold, completed on July 4, 1863, helped the Union control the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
The 1854 law that allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide the question of slavery through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The name for the states that remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
The Union general who accepted Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Union military policy announced by Lincoln in 1863 that declared enslaved people in rebelling areas free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Union victory at this Pennsylvania battle in July 1863 stopped Lee’s invasion of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
The political party founded in the 1850s that opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories.
What is the Republican Party?
The name for the breakaway government formed by the Southern states that seceded.
What is the Confederacy?
The Union victory in Mississippi that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
The name for African American soldiers who served in the Union Army, including members of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry.
Who are United States Colored Troops (USCT)?
The constitutional amendment ratified in December 1865 that abolished slavery throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime under the amendment’s exception.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?