Battles
The first CONFRONTATION of the American Civil War.
What was the battle at Ft. Sumter?
16th president of the United States. Elected in 1860. Signed the Emancipation Proclamation and wrote the Gettysburg Address.
What is Abraham Lincoln?
Freed all slaves in the seceded or Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What advantages did the North have?
What is more supplies, better ships, factories, and more soldiers?
The new name for the seceded states.
What are the Confederate States of America?
The state where major battles most occurred.
What is Virginia?
Abolitionist writer who advocated for radical end of slavery. He published the North Star newsletter.
What is Frederick Douglas?
The three Civil War Amendments.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
What advantages did the South have?
What is better leaders and familiarity with the land?
Because of the conflict between slave owners and those who didn’t own slaves, this state got a nickname.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
During this battle, the Civil War could have ended. Why did it not?
What is McLellan refusing to pursue confederate troops at Antietam?
Commander of the Union Army.
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
In this speech, Lincoln clarified that the purpose of the Union was of the people, by the people, and for the people.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Why did Lincoln not free ALL slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is he feared that fearing all slaves would result in the secession of border states?
This principle referred to when a state would decide if it allowed slavery based on majority vote.
What is popular sovereignty?
This cemetery in Pennsylvania is the site where over 50,000 were killed during one of, if not the bloodiest battles in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
Why did Robert E. Lee refuse Lincoln’s offer to become Commander in Chief of the U.S. Army?
What is Lee refusing to fight against Virginia?
An escaped slave who sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court essentially ruled that slaves did not have citizenship in this case.
What is Dred Scott?
How did the South refer to Northerners after the Civil War?
What is northern immigrants being referred to as carpetbaggers and scalawags?
These four states were known as border states, meaning they allowed slavery but remained within the Union.
What are Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland?
Where were the major southern victories?
What are Fredericksburg, Bull Run, and Chancellorsville?
Lincoln’s successor who failed as a leader and was very, VERY close to being impeached.
What is Andrew Johnson?
The Union’s three stage plan to choke the Confederacy. It consisted of naval blockades along the Southern Coast, capturing the capital, Richmond, and splitting the South down the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This radical abolitionist led an unsuccessful raid on Harper’s Ferry.
What is John Brown?
The first Confederate capital.
What is Montgomery, Alabama?