Causes of the Civil War
What is Slavery?
Which battle marked the start of the Civil War?
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
He was the President of the United States from 1860-1865.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
These were the names of the North and the South during the Civil War.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
This side of the war had a larger population, thus having the advantage of more help during the war.
Who is the Union?
This group of people were anti-slavery and believed in the emancipation of African Americans.
Who are the abolitionists?
This battle lasted 3 days and was a significant turning point in the Civil War?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
He became Lincoln's top General towards the end of the Civil War and later became the 18th US President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This Executive Order from President Lincoln freed enslaved people in the rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This famous Supreme Court case decision said that the US government has no right to take away a man's property anywhere is the US. Thus, allowing Southerns to bring their slaves north.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This is known as the bloodiest single day in US History.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
He was the famous for having a case of the "slows".
Who is General George B. McClellan?
The Union used this strategic plan to block trade, cutting off resources, and dividing the confederacy
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This General became famous because of the success of his "TOTAL WAR" strategy in the South.
Who is General William T. Sherman?
This act allowed slave catchers to come into the free North and bring slaves back down to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This Fort was famously attacked by the 54th Massachusetts Regiment.
What is Fort Wagner?
Who was the leader of the Confederate Army?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
What is South Carolina?
This is the title AND author of the famous book which led to the North opening their eyes and hearts to the horrors of slavery.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This is where Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant, ending the Civil War.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
He was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
These are the four border states.
What are Maryland, Delaware, Kansas, and Missouri?
He was Abraham Lincoln's Vice President for his SECOND term. (Hint: he was a southern and former slave owner).
Who is Andrew Johnson?