Vocabulary
A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
What is an Abolitionist?
He was assassinated in 1865, shortly after the end of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln Elected President.
What is 1860?
This document, issued by Abraham Lincoln, set slaves free in the rebelling states of the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The northern states who stayed together during the Civil War.
What is the Union?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse ends the Civil War.
What is 1865?
This speak was given when Lincoln was reelected to president.
What is Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address?
Turning point of the war in 1863 that made it clear the Union would win.
What is Gettysburg?
The southern states that broke away from the United States.
What is the Confederacy?
He was leader of the Union army during the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
South Carolina Secedes from the Union.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Deadliest day in American history and strategic Union victory.
What is Antietam?
Slave-holding states that did not leave the Union like Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware.
What are border states?
He was known as a strong military leader and fought for the Confederate army during the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Emancipation Proclamation is issued.
What is 1863?
This speech was given toward the end of the war with a hope to establish a "lasting peace."
What is Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address?
First shots were fired here when Lincoln sent ships with food to feed hungry men.
What is Fort Sumter?
To formally leave or break away from a group or country.
What is secession?
He was 18th president of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Abraham Lincoln gives the Gettysburg address.
What is 1863?
This document was criticized by Frederick Douglass because it did not go far enough.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Major victory in Tennessee by General Grant over the Confederates
What is the Battle of Shiloh?