Vocabulary
A person who wanted to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This issue regarding the ownership of people divided the North and the South before the Civil War.
What is slavery?
The first battle and immediate cause of the Civil War.
What is the Bombing of Fort Sumter?
During the Civil War women took on these roles.
The ______________ had the advantage during the war of a larger population and more industrial factories.
What is the North?
A rapid rise in prices that decreased the value of money.
What is inflation?
This state was the first state to secede from the Union immediately after Lincoln won the Election of 1860.
What is South Carolina?
This battle convinced Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This disease was most commonly contracted during the Civil War.
What is dysentery?
This was the most common cause of death during the Civil War.
What is diseases?
An all-out war strategy that targets civilian resources like businesses, crops, and transportation.
What is total-war?
This invention allowed for the advancement of technological progress and human oppression.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This 'battle' used a total-war technique to destroy Southern morale/
What is Sherman's March to Sea?
African Americans were now allowed to do this _________, which changed the public opinion as it demonstrated their determination and bravey.
What is 'join the military'?
This document freed the enslaved people and acts as a 'turning point' within the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The idea that settlers in new territories should decide where to allow slavery. Considered government by consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This event took place in the senate floor and showed how tensions between the North and South had turned violent before the Civil War.
What is the Canning of Charles Sumner?
This battle acted as the official end to the Civil War where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
The poor medical knowledge of the Civil War pushed for ___________.
What is the improvement of sanitation in medical care?
This speech honored the fallen soldiers during the war and helped redefine the purpose of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
A northerner who opposed using force to keep southern states in the Union.
What is a copperhead?
What is the Dred Scott case?
Civilians brought picnic baskets to this battle prior to realizing the brutality of war.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
African American soldiers in the Union Army were organized into separate units, one of the most famous being this regiment.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
The war officially ended in this year.
What is 1865?