Causes
leave
What are the two sides in the war?
Union vs Confederacy or North vs South
Who was a famous conductor on the Underground Railraod?
Harriet Tubman
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
US President during Civil War
What is the name of the country formed by the Southern states?
Confederacy
Name one reason the Southern states wanted to leave the Union.
states rights, slavery
What is total war?
destroying towns and food supplies
Which side did Robert E Lee fight for?
Confederate
Who shot Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What did the Missouri Compromise do?
added Missouri as a slave state and created a line to divide N/S or free/slave
What was the big question each time a new state was added to the US?
What does surrender mean?
to give up, say the other side has won
Who was the Union general?
Ulysses S Grant
Where did Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address?
Gettysburg battlefield
What is sectionalism?
loyalty to one's part of the country
What did the Dred Scott decision do?
limited rights of African Americans, did not allow them to be citizens
Which battle had the bloodiest day of the war?
Antietam
Who burned most of Georgia on his march to the sea?
Sherman
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
freed slaves in areas fighting the Union
ended slave trade, included Fugitive Slave Act
What was the effect of John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?
Southerns got weapons and formed militias
Where did Lee surrender?
Appomattox
Who was the Confederate President?
Jefferson Davis
Where was Lincoln assassinated?
Ford Theater, or theater/at a play
Why did Lincoln free slaves?
to save the Union