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What were the names given to the North and the South?
What is Union and Confederacy
What was the main reason for the Civil War?
What is Slavery
What was the backbone of the South?
What is Slavery?
What does it mean to Secede?
What is withdraw formally from membership of a federal union
Where did the Civil War begin?
What is Fort Sumter
Which division had more resources, railroads, and people?
What is the North/Union
During the Civil War soldiers mainly…
This person led the "Scorched Earth" March to the Sea destroying everything in his path.
William T. Sherman
What was the importance of the Appomattox Courthouse?
What is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.
Most of the people living were considered democrats?
What is the South
When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?
What is to restore the Union
This compromise was made prior to the outbreak of the Civil War in order to ease tensions over the issue of slavery in new territories.
What is Missouri Compromise
In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
What is military leadership
“That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord [1863], 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…”
Who said and/or wrote the above statement?
What is Abraham Lincoln, in The Emancipation Proclamation.
What is a person called who worked to end the institution of slavery.
What is Abolitionist
The major Union victory known as the turning point of the war was ________________.
What is Battle of Gettysburg
Which side enlisted African American soldiers into their army?
What is the North/Union
The philosophy that people have the right to determine for themselves the nature of their own government.
Popular Sovereignty