Civil War People
The president of the U.S.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
It could fire faster, more accurately, and further than the musket it replaced
Ownership of human beings, it was the primary cause of the Civil War
What is slavery?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
The president of the C.S.A.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The collection of 11 Southern states that seceded
What is the Confederacy?
Steam-powered boats with stronger hulls
What are ironclads?
The movement to end slavery
What is abolition?
The bloodiest single-day battle of the war
What is Antietam?
He chose his home state of Virginia in working as a top Confederate general over the Union
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The first major battle of the war was fought here
What is Bull Run?
The uniforms of Union and Confederacy were these two colors
What are the Blue and the Gray
Derisive nickname for Northern Democrats
What are copperheads?
The war began this year
What is 1861?
He shouted "thus always to tyrants" after leaping to the stage after shooting Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered in this settlement in a house owned by a farmer named Wilmer McLean
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Originally horse-drawn carriages, these vehicles carried wounded men from the battlefield
What are ambulances?
This declared slaves in rebellion states to be freed in an effort to deprive the Confederacy of its workforce
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The War ended this year
What is 1865?
A battlefield nurse who later formed the American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?
This new state broke away to join the Union after its former state joined the Confederacy
What is West Virginia?
Both Union and Confederacy lacked these types of antimicrobial medicines
What are antiseptics
Sherman and Grant used this tactic of not only fighting the army, but destroying the civilian's ability to support the army
What is total war?
Seven states seceded after Abraham Lincoln won this
What is the Election of 1860?