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Southern Democrats that wanted peace with the North.
What are copperheads?
He came up with the Anaconda Plan to starve the South of resources and force its surrender.
Who is Winfield Scott?
A group that wanted to eliminate slavery from the United States.
Who are the Abolitionists?
The single bloodiest day in American history took place during this battle.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Anyway, the President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The first Republican Presidential candidate, he was defeated by Democrat James Buchanon.
Who is John C. Fremont?
This general was cut down by friendly fire.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
What is the Battle of Bull Run/Manassas?
The Union victory at Antietam was the momentum shift that Abraham Lincoln needed to hand down this executive order.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He was almost killed in Kansas, but he started a raid on Harper's Ferry anyway.
Who is John Brown?
The site of the South's surrender.
What is Appomattox Court House?
He was fired by Lincoln only to oppose him in the election of 1864.
Who is George McClellan?
South Carolina seceded once Lincoln was declared the winner of the 1860 election; this man was still President at the time.
Who is James Buchanon?
What is Vicksburg?
This nation wanted to keep Texas as a colony, but it won its independence anyway.
What is Mexico?
New battle technology that allowed for naval battles to be more effective.
What are ironclads?
This general famously made Georgia "howl," and targeted citizens to try to bring the war to a close and force the South to surrender through a policy of "total war."
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
A network of safehouses and people that helped runaway slaves escape North to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This was the first engagement of the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This declaration of freedom didn't actually free any slaves the day it was created, but Lincoln ordered it into law anyway.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
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Name the four Southern states that did not secede.
What are Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, and Missouri?
Easily the most skilled general in the Civil War, he was asked by Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union army but refused after the secession of Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
He is credited with authoring the Declaration of Independence, in which he stated that "All men are created equal."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War that was a significant Union victory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
He lived in the North for a few years, but the USSC decided he was still a slave anyway.
Who is Dred Scott?