Key Battles
The battle in which General Lee surrenders.
What is the Battle of Appomattox Court House?
Led the Union army to victory, would end up becoming a U.S. president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This was the main cause of the Civil War.
What is Slavery?
This man gave the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
He was the Confederate General who surrendered to the Union, ending the War.
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
A battle fought in September 1862, and named after the Maryland Creek that it was fought next to. Lee lost a fourth of his army and the support of Britain and France.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This man was the main Confederate General, and fought with his home state of Virginia for the Civil War even though he did not support succession.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
They were fighting for their way of life.
What was the Confederacy fighting for?
Lincon waited until after this battle to give the Emancipation proclimation, to make sure that the Union had the upper hand and the confederacy was weakened and alone.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The Union General who negotiated the terms of surrender.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This is the Battle in which the Union army captured the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
The First and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
They were fighting to preserve the Union.
This was when Lincoln gave the Emancipation Proclamation speech.
What happened on January 1, 1863?
General Ulysses did this because he knew that the nation had to stay united, and that to have peace and equality the Confederate soldiers must be shown mercy.
Why did General Ulysses let the Confederate soldiers go home?
Battle fought from July 1st to 3rd in 1863 with over 50,000 total casualties.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
General who was hired after the Battle of Antietam.
Who was General Ambrose Burnside?
This battle marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This was when Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
What happened in July, 1862?
This was the date that General Lee signed the document of surrender.
What happened on April 9, 1865?
A battle that was fought in 1864, changed public opinion about Abraham Lincoln and helped Lincoln get re-elected as president.
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
General who was fired for hesitancy in the battle of Antietam.
Who was General McClellan?
A Supreme Court case that caused tension to grow over the matter of slavery.
What was the Dred Scott case?
This is what the Emancipation Proclamation led up to.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This was the date when the president signed a document signaling the official ending of the American Civil War and that America was at peace.
What happened on August 20, 1866?