Causes of the Civil War
This word means to leave the union and something that southern states did prior to the Civil War.
What is secede?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This person was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment outlawed slavery in the United States.
What was the 13th amendment?
This is the most produced crop in the United States today.
What is corn?
The election of this president caused many southern states to secede because they feared he would outlaw slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was an advantage of the North during the Civil War that allowed for easier transport of troops and supplies.
What was the railroad?
This person was the Commanding General of the Confederate Army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This amendment gave citizenship to all people born in the United States and therefore applied to African Americans.
What was the 14th amendment?
Who is Tom Brady?
Who is John Brown?
This was an advantage of the North during the Civil War that allowed Lincoln and his generals to communicate quickly and efficiently.
What was the telegraph?
This person was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This amendment provided voting rights to black males.
What was the 15th amendment?
This was Michael Jackson's nickname.
What is the "King of Pop"?
This court case decided that African Americans were not citizens and were considered property, which upset many northern abolitionists.
What is Dredd Scott v Sandford?
This all black regiment fought not only the Confederates at Fort Wagner, but also for equal pay within the Union Army.
What was the Massachusetts 54th?
This person was in charge of the Massachusetts 54th.
Who was Colonel Robert Gould Shaw?
Due to Lincoln's assassination, this person became president and did not push for civil rights as much as Lincoln probably would have.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
What National Holiday occurs on the last Monday of May? (Hint: Remembers those who have died for our country)
What is Memorial Day?
These two compromises only temporarily settled the balance between free and slave states and did not prevent the Civil War.
What are the Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850?
This battle in 1863 was a turning point in the war and had the highest amount of casualties of any Civil War battle.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was Abraham Lincoln's main goal of the Civil War.
What was to reunite the country?
These are two ways that Southern States would often prevent black males from voting.
What were poll taxes and literacy tests?
Ukraine and Russia were both part of this communist country during most of the 1900s.
What is the Soviet Union/USSR?