Things Fall Apart
This issue was at the center of sectional tension and was the primary cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This side had the larger population.
What is the Union (North)?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas)?
This document declared enslaved people free in Confederate-controlled territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This general surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The event in 1860 that triggered Southern secession.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This battle became the bloodiest single day in American history.
What is Antietam?
After the Emancipation Proclamation, this group was allowed to formally serve in the Union Army.
Who were African American soldiers?
This event occurred just days after the war effectively ended.
This act by Southern states formally removed them from the United States.
What is secession?
One major advantage the Confederacy had at the start of the war.
What is experienced military leaders/defensive strategy/strong motivation?
These two battles in July 1863 are considered major turning points for the Union.
What are Gettysburg & Vicksburg?
This is one way women contributed to the Civil War effort.
What is as nurses/farm or business managers/factory workers/spies?
This was one major economic effect of the Civil War.
This is how southerners connected States’ rights to the issue of slavery.
What is they used States’ rights to justify protecting their right to slavery?
The industrial strength of the Union mattered for this reason as the war continued.
What is it allowed the Union to produce weapons, supplies, and transportation needed for a long war?
These two battles were the first successes of the Union in the west.
What are Fort Donelson & Fort Henry?
This is why the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free all enslaved people immediately.
What is it only applied to territories in rebellion & depended on Union military success?
This is why the surrender terms at Appomattox Court House were important for reunification.
What is they were generous and aimed at reconciliation rather than punishment?
This is why the attack on Fort Sumter made one last compromise between the North and South impossible.
The Confederacy needed to keep the fight going long enough for either one of these two things to happen.
What is the North to give up or European nations to recognize them?
This made Vicksburg strategically important to the Union.
Abraham Lincoln hesitated to order the Emancipation Proclamation for this reason.
What is he did not believe the Constitution gave him the power to ban slavery?
What is rebuilding the South/the rights of formerly enslaved people/political reintegration?