Tier 1
Definition: A Person Who Serves In The Army.
What Is a Soldier?
Definition: To leave or withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
What is Secede?
Definition: A War Between Citizens Of The Same Country.
What is a Civil War?
How did the issues of states' rights increase sectional tension between the North and the South?
An important issue separating the country related to the power of the Federal government. Southerners believed that they had the power to declare any national law illegal. Northerners believed that the national government's power was supreme over that of the states. The North believed that the nation was a union and could not be divided.
President of the Union government during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Definition: A large fight between armed forces.
What is a Battle?
Also Referred To As The Central Government Of The U.S.
What Is The Federal Government?
Definition: The act or process of freeing someone from legal, social, or political restrictions like slavery.
What is Emancipation?
What issues created bitter divisions between the North and the South?
Issues concerning: slavery, culture, economics and the Constitution
The leading union general in the civil war. He made total warfare, which meant to attack the other person's resources as much as possible.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Definition: The leader of an army, or an army officer of very high rank.
What is a General?
13th Amendment Of The U.S. Constitution Abolished What Institution In The United States?
What is Slavery?
Lead by Jefferson Davis, this alliance was originally formed by seven secessionist slave-holding states.
What is Confederacy?
How did slavery divide the nation?
While there were several differences between the North and the South, issues related to slavery increasingly divided the nation and led to the Civil War.
The president of the confederate states during the civil war.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Definition: A person killed or injured in a war or accident.
What is a Casualty?
Definition: The action or an act of ending a system, practice, or institution.
What is Abolition?
Formed by the federal army, this army fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.
What is the Union Army?
Many consider this battle on July 4, 1863 to be the turning point of the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A former Union General who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force, he joined the South after Virginia seceded. He was in charge of the Confederate Army, and led it to many victories.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Definition: An Order
What Is A Command?
Define: Antebellum.
Before the War. Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
Refers To the struggle between the federal government and individual states over political power. During the American Civil War, this struggle focused heavily on the institution of slavery and whether the federal government had the right to regulate or even abolish slavery within an individual state.
What is States' Rights?
On April 12–13, 1861 this battle started with the bombardment of a Fort near Charleston, South Carolina by the South Carolina militia (the Confederate Army did not yet exist), and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
A Confederate General who was an inspiration to his troops because of his outstanding bravery. He earned the nic-name "Stonewall" because he held strong in the Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?