People of the Civil War
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court said that Scott could not sue because he was what?
Property, and no African American could be a citizen
This fort in South Carolina is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Fort Sumter
Taking effect on January 1, 1863 this statement from President Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in "rebellious states." It did NOT free slaves in slave-holding border states that had remained loyal to the Union.
The Emancipation Proclamation
In his first Inaugural Address, Lincoln made sure to send what message to the seceding states of the South?
That he would preserve the Union at all costs
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Before the Civil War, the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 both attempted to settle conflicts between the North and the South over what?
New states entering the Union and the issue of slavery.
This was the first major land battle of the Civil War. Civilians in Washington, DC were so convinced that the Union would win this battle (they were wrong), they picnicked near the battlefield so they could watch.
The First Battle of Bull Run
During the Civil War, this group of Americans worked as nurses, ran businesses while their husbands or fathers were at war, and fought for abolition. The lessons they learned from this experience would ultimately lead to the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting them the right to vote.
Women
During these debates that made him famous, Lincoln stated that he believed sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union.
Lincoln-Douglas
Who was the general who would eventually lead the Union to victory?
Ulysses S. Grant
Immediately after Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, what did several southern states do?
Seceded from the Union and created the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy).
This was one of the few Civil War battles fought in the North. After the Confederate forces lost, Lee would never have enough troop strength to invade the North again.
the Battle of Gettysburg
In the last year of the Civil War, Congress passed which Amendment which banned slavery everywhere in the United States?
13th
In this short speech of 3 paragraphs after a huge Union victory, Lincoln very clearly defined why the United States was fighting a Civil War: so that "...government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
The Gettysburg Address
Who was the general in charge of all Confederate armed forces?
Robert E. Lee
Southern states thought they had the right to secede from the Union because of what right given to them in the Constitution?
States Rights (10th Amendment)
The second phase of the Anaconda Plan was to capture the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy in two. This happened after Grant captured this Mississippi city in 1863.
Battle of Vicksburg
The ________________ of the South was devastated after the Civil War. Not only did they lose much of their workforce (slaves), but most of the railroads, much of their farmland, and factories were destroyed in the fighting.
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theatre by whom in 1865?
John Wilkes Booth
This Confederate General died after the Battle of Chancellorsville. The impact of his death was devastating to the morale of the Confederate army and civilians.
Stonewall Jackson
Potential new voters rushed to the western territory of Kansas to influence the vote over whether to allow slavery in the new state. There was so much violence, newspapers called it what?
Bleeding Kansas
After the Siege of Petersburg led to the fall of Richmond, Lee agreed to surrender to Grant in this town in Virginia.
Appomattox Courthouse
What was the main priority of the United States after the war ended?
To bring the Confederate states back into the Union as quickly as possible.
"With malice toward none, with charity for all..." is one of the famous lines from which of Lincoln's speeches that really reinforced his idea that peace should be fair and generous after the war.
His 2nd Inaugural Address