Questions 1-5
America was often called this during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
These two states were brought into the Union under the Missouri Compromise.
What are Missouri and Maine?
This is what the Northern soldiers were called.
What is Billy Yanks, Yanks, or Yankees?
What is the Merrimac?
This was the turning point of the war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This is one of the reasons that slavery disappeared in the North.
What is farms were small and factories?
He was elected President in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is John Rebs or Rebels?
This document was issued by Lincoln to free the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This battle put the Mississippi River under Northern control.
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
These were the main crops of the South
What is cotton and tobacco?
This is why the South disliked Lincoln.
What is because they knew he dislike slavery?
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This was the name of the first Northern ironclad ship.
What is the Monitor?
Who was General William T. Sherman?
He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This is the name that the Southern states chose for their nation.
The number of states that stayed with the Union.
What is 22?
He was the commander of the Union army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was the capital city for the Confederates.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
This is why the cotton gin was such a big help to farmers.
What is because it removed seeds quickly?
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What is a blockade?
He was the general of the Confederate army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
He shot and killed Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?