Civil War
This General will become he 18th President of the United States, 4 years after the Civil War ended?
Ulysses S. Grant
What are the two sides who fought in the Civil War? (There can be two names)
North = Union
South = Confederacy
True or False: The US wanted to keep a balance of free vs slave states leading up to the Civil War.
TRUE
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
What was the Turning Point battle of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Who wanted a weaker national government, the Union or the Confederates?
The Confederates
True or False: The North was considered Urban and used slaves as their workers
FALSE
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
What was the name of Robert E. Lee's army?
Army of Northern Virginia
Who went on a march that destroyed $100 million of property in Georgia
General William T Sherman
She was a Civil War nurse who helped set up the American Red Cross
Clara Barton
What is an example of a constitutional issue that divided the North and South?
South want strong state governments while the North supports a strong national govenrment
Missouri requested statehood and they add Maine as a free state to reset the balance. Louisiana Territory was split so the North is free and South is slave
Describe the impact of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson
A skilled general in the Confederacy from Virginia who was mistakenly shot by his own men
What was the role of Elizabeth Van Lew during the Civil War?
She was a Union spy
The state of California was formed as a free state under which compromise?
The Compromise of 1850
How did the landscape (rural or urban) impact each side of the War?
The North was urban so they had a higher population and manufacturing.
The South was rural and had a smaller population who worked on farms
Who was elected in the Presidential election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
What did the Emancipation Proclamation accomplish?
Freed all the people across the Nation, but not in the South since they were not following Abraham Lincoln
Who was an escaped slave who served in the Union Navy and eventually became a Congressman?
Robert Smalls
This battle divided the south & gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union.
The Battle of Vicksburg
List out each of the following for both the North and South:
Specialization
What they created/examples
Who was their workers
North: Manufacturing, clothing/textiles, paid workers
South: Agriculture, cotton/tobacco, slaves
Describe the event of Bleeding Kansas
Mass violence when people moved to Kansas to vote whether or not to allow slavery
Describe what Abraham Lincoln believed about secession
The United States was one nation that could not be divided
How did women impact the Civil War? Describe their role, including Harriet Tubman
They ran the family farms and businesses. Tubman was an escaped slave who led slaves to freedom in the Underground Railroad