Which Union general marched his troops to the sea, destroying everything on the way?
General William T. Sherman
Who was general Robert E. Lee?
The general of the Confederate army
Where were Lincoln shot and killed?
Theater
Why was the cotton gin such a help to Southern farmers?
The machine quickly removed the seeds from the cotton?
Who was the general of the Union army?
General Ulysses S. Grant
Who was elected President in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
What document issued by Lincoln freed the slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What was the capital city of the Confederacy?
Richmond
What was the name of the first Southern ironclad ship?
Merrimac
What did the North set up against the South to weaken it?
President Lincoln sent Union ships to block all major seaports of the South.
Who shot and killed President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What battle put the Mississippi River under Northern control?
Battle of Vicksburg
What two states were brought into the Union under the terms of the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri and Maine
What were the South's two main crops?
cotton and tobacco
What were the Northern soldiers called?
The Union Troops
Who invented the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
What was America often called during the Civil War period?
Union
Where was the first battle of the Civil War fought?
Fort Sumter
What were the Southern soldiers called?
The Confederate Troops
Why did slavery disappear in the North?
The Northern farmer could not afford to buy many slaves.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
President of the Confederate States of America
-Which state left the Union first?
-Name the other six states that left the Union.
-What name did the Southern states choose for their new nation?
-South Carolina
-Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas
-Confederate States of America
What was the site of Lee's surrender to Grant?
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Why did the South dislike Lincoln?
South said they would not trust him as their president because they new he disliked slavery.
What was the name of the first Northern ironclad ship?
Monitor