Generals/Leaders
The Union's main general who allowed the Confederate officers to keep their swords and horses after they surrendered.
Ulysses S. Grant
Where the first shots were fired to start the civil war.
Fort Sumter
The color of the Union uniforms.
What is blue?
Republican candidate of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
The Supreme Court ruled against this case in which a slave sued his owners to receive freedom.
Dred Scott
The confederacy's main general who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
Robert E. Lee
Which battle in the Northern Territory had a profound influence on the war and had the most casualties?
Gettysburg
The color of the Confederate uniform
What is grey?
Southern states based their economy on?
slavery and agriculture
The principle that the federal government has only limited authority over each state.
State's rights
Captured and burned Atlanta, an important rail hub for the Confederacy.
William T. Sherman
The South won its first victory here. The battle was also known as the battle of Manassas?
Battle of Bull Run
A system of operation to aid and house enslaved people who had escaped
What is the Underground Railroad?
What act in 1850 required Americans to help return runaway slaves to their owners?
Fugitive Slave Act
A person who opposed slavery and wanted to end it immediately.
abolitionist
He was the Union general at the Battle of Gettysburg.
George Meade
Who won the siege of Vicksburg?
Union
The laws enacted by the South after the Civil War to keep African Americans oppressed
What are the Jim Crow Laws?
After the election of 1860, seven states formed a new union called?
The Confederate States of America
Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, starting the...
Civil War
In the Peninsular Campaign, this general tried to capture Richmond from the Confederates.
George McClellan
Who won the second battle of Bull Run?
Confederacy
Large farms that slaves worked on
What are plantations?
What percentage of the US population died during the civil war? 1%, 2%, 36%, 10%
2%
After the election of 1860, many states chose to __________ from the Union.
secede
President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
Who won the first battle of the Civil War?
The Confederate States of America
This machine removed the seeds from cotton that increased the need for slave labor on planations
What is the cotton gin?
Who shot President Abraham Lincoln during a play at Ford's Theatre?
John Wilkes Booth
The first state to leave the Union was...
South Carolina
Confederate General who stood "like a stone wall" during the fighting in Bull Run.
Who is Thomas Jackson?
Abraham Lincoln gave a speech dedicating a cemetery here many months after this battle. His speech is called the
The Gettysburg Address
Harriet Tubman
Who was the leader of the Underground Railroad?
Railroads, factories, and navy were advantages for the...
Union
John Bell and his party said that the Constitution permitted/allowed...
slavery