Causes of the Civil War
This issue was the main cause of tension between the North and South.
What is slavery?
This man was President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
his 1861 attack marked the start of the Civil War when Confederate forces fired on a Union fort in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
What are nurses (or factory workers)?
This name was given to African American Union soldiers.
This side preserved the United States as one nation.
What is the Union?
This argument was used by Southern states to justify secession.
What are states’ rights?
This man was President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This battle is considered the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This famous African American regiment from Massachusetts gained recognition for its bravery.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This 1820 agreement attempted to balance free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This general led the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This was the biggest killer of soldiers,
Disease
This period aimed to rebuild the South and integrate freed people into society.
What is Reconstruction?
This law forced citizens to return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This Union general is known for his “March to the Sea.”
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This battle led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This tactic used by Sherman involved destroying infrastructure across the South.
What is total war?
This event in 1865 shocked the nation shortly after the war ended.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
This 1860 event triggered Southern secession.
What is Abraham Lincoln’s election?
This formerly enslaved man became a leading abolitionist speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1865 event marked the end of the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This describes the severe shortages faced by civilians in the South.
What is food scarcity or economic collapse?
This system in the South kept many African Americans in poverty after the war.
What is sharecropping?