Causes
Three months of bloody battling in a new state to decide if it would be a free or slave state.
"Bleeding Kansas"
The title of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist newspaper.
The Liberator
USA president/CSA president
Abraham Lincoln/Jefferson Davis
What was the first battle that began the Civil War?
The Battle of Fort Sumter
The Union troops stationed in Charleston S.C. went here after South Carolina seceded.
Fort Sumter in the Charleston Harbor
The first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
Commanding general Union/Confederacy
Ulysses S. Grant/Robert E. Lee
This battle was considered a “turning point” of the war, it was Lee's last push into the North.
The Battle of Gettysburg
Spectators came from this city to watch the first major battle of the war at Manassas/Sharpsburg
Washington D.C.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin anger northerners and added to the number abolitionists, what was the book about?
The book told of the evils of slavery.
He was an escaped slave that wrote an autobiography and encouraged President Lincoln to emancipate the slaves.
Frederick Douglass
Commander that fired on Ft. Sumter to begin the Civil War.
General Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard
This battle was considered a "turning point" in the war, the North gained control of the Mississippi River.
The Battle Vicksburg
Along what river was the South split in two?
The Mississippi River
Texas deposed him from office for trying to stop secession.
Governor Sam Houston
She was an escaped slave and a conductor the Underground Railroad
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Commander of the 20th Maine, ordered a bayonet charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
General Joshua Chamberlain
This battle, in July 1864, ended with the Confederates and townspeople burning the city before abandoning it.
The Battle of Atlanta
General Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah, his army lived off the land and destroyed everything to make Georgians do what
He wanted to make them howl.
The first 6 states to secede from the Union
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana
Outlawed slavery in the U.S.
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
Cavalry general once wounded in battle, pulled a union soldier on the back of his horse to escape.
Confederate Lieutenant General Nathaniel Bedford Forrest
What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
The Battle Appomattox Courthouse
General Sheridan went through this are destroying anything that could be of use to the Confederates.
The Shenandoah Valley