Battles
What was the result of the Battle of Vicksburg?
What is the Union took control of the Mississippi River?
Frederick Douglass was MOST known for his work in what area?
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
1857 Dred Scott decision
1859 John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry, VA
1860 Election of Abraham Lincoln/ Secession of South Carolina
Which would be the BEST title for this timeline?
What is the causes of the Civil War?
Which of these was a Northern advantage at the start of the Civil War?
What is natural resources?
Who was the commanding general of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War?
Who is General Robert Lee?
Why was General William T. Sherman's "March to the Sea" so important to the Union in the Civil War?
What is destruction of the railroad system?
Identify the Union general who captured the Mississippi River after the Siege of Vicksburg
Who is Ulysses Grant?
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
- excerpt from “The Gettysburg Address,” Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863
The last five words in this excerpt is referencing what document?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
For the South the primary aim of the war was to win recognition
What is an independent nation?
This person was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
· Was the first and largest Civil War battle in the state of Tennessee
· Was fought between April 6 and 7, 1862
· Was a decisive victory for Union general Ulysses S. Grant
· Resulted in the death of Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston
Which Civil War battle do these facts describe?
This person led the March to the Sea destroying everything in his path.
Who is William Sherman?
· Began July 21, 1861
First major battle
· Took place 30 miles from Washington, D.C.
· Resulted in a Confederate victory
· "Stonewall" Jackson earned his nickname here
What battle is being described here?
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
In 1860, almost two months after Lincoln was elected president, South Carolina decided to secede from the Union. Six other states followed, and together these states formed their own government called the Confederate States of America.
Which is the BEST definition of secede?
To break away
This person was the president of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This describes the result of the First Battle of Bull run in July 1861?
The Union realized that the war would not end quickly and easily.
Which abolitionist led an attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
Who is John Brown?
Which was a direct result of President Lincoln winning the Election of 1860?
What is when South Carolina seceeded from the union?
In the Antebellum era, abolitionists grew in influence in the United States, and even in some parts of the South. In U.S. History, the term abolitionist refers to which of these?
The person who led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
· Took place on September 17, 1862
· Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced each other
· The Confederate offensive was stopped
· Was the bloodiest day of the Civil War
These are describing the Civil War Battle of
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This person wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which spoke about the cruelty of slavery.
Who is Harriot Beecher Stowe?
What law did Abraham Lincoln formally sign on January 1, 1863, which freed enslaved African Americans in the Confederacy?
"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, a free white in the North could be sentenced to imprisonment and be forced to pay a fine for doing which of the following?
Where did Lee surrender to Grant to end the war?
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?