Important People
Battles
Key Dates
Important Events
Key Terms
100
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis.
100
The bloodiest overall battle
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
100
The year that the first shots of the Civil War were fired
What is 1861?
100
Two minute speech given by Abraham Lincoln
What is the Gettysburg Address?
100
Any person who worked to end slavery
What is an Abolitionist?
200
Union General who marched through Georgia.
Who is William T. Sherman?
200
The battle that proved that the South could be a threat to the Union.
What is Battle of Bull Run?
200
The day of Surrender at the Appamatox courthouse
What is April 9, 1865?
200
Confederate prison for Union P.O.W.
What is Andersonville?
200
Separate from the Union
What is to Secede?
300
The union commander that Robert E. Lee surrendered to
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
Led to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
The year that southern states began to secede
What is 1860?
300
Name two causes of the Civil War?
What is slavery, state's rights, tariffs, secession, and the election of 1860?
300
Separated seeds from cotton
What is the Cotton Gin?
400
Wrote Uncle Tom's cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
Battle in Georgia, Confederates pushed the Union troops into Tennessee.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
400
The day that the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect
What is January 1, 1863?
400
Declared that all slaves were free (not the person)
What is the Emancipation Proclamation? or the 13th Amendment?
400
What CSA stands for
What is the Confederate States of America?
500
Former slave, sued for his freedom in Supreme Court.
What is Dred Scott?
500
What was destroyed in Atlanta, making it an important victory for the North
What are the railroads?
500
The years that the Civil War took place during
What are 1861-1865?
500
Fugitive slave act, slave trade banned in D.C., and California became a free state
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
States that did not join the Confederacy, but supported the South
What is a Border State?
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