Causes
Civil War Leaders
Civil War Events
Presidential Actions.
Civilians and War
100
This agreement made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state . . . so there would an equal number of northern and southern number of Congressmen
What was the Missouri Compromise (Comp of 1820)
100
His March from Atlanta to the Sea was the best example of total war, war that also affected civilians as well as soldiers.
Who was Union General William T Sherman?
100
Where the Civil War ended in Virginia in 1865.
Where is Appomattox, Virginia?
100
This freed slaves in southern states that joined the Confederacy.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Soldiers from both sides survived these types of wounds thanks to new medical techniques.
Who were amputees?
200
His attack on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, caused Southerners to believe abolitionists would use violence to end slavery.
Who was John Brown?
200
This Union political leader said that war was necessary to preserve the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
It was after this Union victory in Maryland that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was Antietam?
200
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
The opening lines of the Gettysburg Address refer to what document?
What was the Declaration of Independence?
200
Clara Barton was the most famous of these, a profession that started during the Civil War.
What was nurse or nursing?
300
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel caused many northerners to become very sympathetic toward the plight of the enslaved.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This former senator became the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
The turning point of the Civil War in Pennsylvania.
What was Gettysburg?
300
"That this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, . . . "
This line from the Gettysburg address is related to the document Lincoln wrote after the battle of Antietam.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
This man stole a confederate ship, sold it to the Union and obtained his freedom.
Who was Robert Smalls?
400
The Supreme Court ruled that slavery could exist in any new state and that slaves were property, not people with this decision.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
400
He was the Union general who accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
Who was the Ulysses S Grant?
400
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this island of the coast of South Carolina in April 1861?
What was Fort Sumter?
400
The Emancipation Proclamation added this additional goal for the Union to win the war.
What was ending slavery?
400
Just like WW II, this group of people worked the farms and factories.
Who were women?
500
His election victory in 1860 resulted in southern states seceding from the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
500
He was the Confederate General that defeated Grant over and over again.
Who was Robert E Lee?
500
This rampage of women proved that many civilians in the south were suffering from lack of supplies.
What was the Richmond Bread Riots?
500
" . . . that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
This line from the Gettysburg Address relates to this original purpose for Lincoln believing war was necessary.
What was preserving the Union?
500
Even though the 15th Amendment ended slavery in Dec 1865, Americans celebrate this day as the day slavery ended in America.
What is Juneteenth?
600
The Nat Turner Rebellion resulted in these being passed in Virginia and the other southern states.
What were harsher slave laws?
600
He was an abolitionist advisor to Lincoln who urged him to free the slaves and enlist African American men into the Union Army.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
600
This was the capital of the Confederacy.
What was Richmond, VA?
600
The Confiscation Acts allowed these former slaves to be free and work for the Union Army.
Who were the "contraband" slaves?
600
This is what killed most Americans during the Civil War.
What was disease?