Vocabulary
This is a term for someone who believed that slavery should end.
What is abolitionist?
The war began at this battle in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
This man was the General of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This man assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This invention by Eli Whitney changed the South's economy and increased its dependence on slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
The war ended here when General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This man was the General of the Union Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This speech was meant to honor soldiers that had died and encourage the Union army.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This is a phrase for the journey enslaved people took to freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This 47-day siege was considered a turning point of the war.
This man served as the only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
John Brown attempted to lead an armed slave revolt at this location in Virginia.
What is Harper's Ferry?
This term means "to break away from a group/nation in order to create a new one."
What is secession/seceding?
This was the bloodiest battle of the war and prompted one of Lincoln's most famous speeches.
What is Gettysburg?
This woman led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This executive order freed all slaves in "rebelling states."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This abolitionist book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This battle was the bloodiest single day in American history.
What is Antietam?
This man led the "March to the Sea" across Georgia.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This city in Kansas was the center of "Bleeding Kansas"; it was home to the Herald of Freedom and where Quantrill's Raid occurred.
What is Lawrence?