Civil War People
The president of the U.S.
The president of the Confederacy
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Who is Jefferson Davis
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
The uniforms of Union and Confederacy were these two colors
What are the Blue and the Gray?
Ownership of human beings was the primary cause of the Civil War.
What was Slavery?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
The war began this year and the war ended this year.
What happened in 1861 and 1865?
Significance of the Battle of Antietam
What is the Confederacy did not gain diplomatic support?
OR
What is Lincoln issued the Emanciapation Proclamation?
Because Abraham Lincoln was assassinated this man succeeded in the presidency (became the new president).
Who is Andrew Johnson
The first major battle of the war was fought here
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
The battle in the Civil War was a big turning point towards the South losing the war since they lost 1/3 of their troops.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
A part of the Anaconda Plan that prevented the Confederacy from trading.
What is a Blockade?
This battle gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
Forcing people into military service.
What was the draft? or conscription?
Main example of how Lincoln suspended civil liberties during the war.
What is Habeus Corpus (suspension of)?
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
The bloodiest 3 day battle of the Civil War and a couple of months later the President spoke there.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The capital city of the Confederate States
What was Richmond, Virginia?
This declared slaves in rebellion states to be freed in an effort to deprive the Confederacy of its workforce
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
African Americans were more likely to vote for this political party.
Who were the Republicans?
In April 1866, Congress passed this bill, Which gave African Americans citizenship, gave the U.S. Government the right to protect the rights of freedmen (the name given freed slaves) and women.
But Congress worried that this act could be overturned by the Supreme Court so this amendment was passed.
What was the 14th Amendment?
The Republican party was made up of these three parties.
What is the whig, free soil, and know nothings?
He shouted "thus always to tyrants" after he shot the President.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
Robert E. Lee surrendered here on this date--Month and year
What happend in April 1865?
How many days after Lee's surrender was President Lincoln assassinated.
What is 5?
The idea that people should have the right to decide whether to be a slave or a free state.
What is Popular sovereignty?
In 1862, the battle between these two ironclad ships ended when neither side could destroy the other.
What were the Monitor and the Merrimack?
She is credited for starting the Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
This man was known as both the Butcher and Unconditional Surrender
Who was Ulysses Grant?
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman
Term for slave states that remained in the Union
What were the border states?
This act strengthened a previous law and effectively made all people slave catchers.
What was The Fugitive Slave Act?
A Northerner who moved south during Reconstruction. (to gain political and economic power)
What was a Carpetbagger?
Name two types of things destroyed by Sherman on his March to the Sea.
What are Railroads, industries, homes, and farms?
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state in this agreement.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The general who later became a president
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
Where is Charleston, S.C.?
This is the supreme law of the United States, written by the Founding Fathers in Philadelphia in 1787.
What is the United States Constitution?
An organized secret society that used terror and violence against African Americans to keep them from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This was a fee that people had to pay in order to vote; it was designed to limit votes for African-Americans
What was the Poll Tax?
This amendment gave all men the right to vote-- black and white.
What is the 15th Amendment?
These were 5 commanders of the Potomac Army
Who were
1 McDowell
2 McClellan
3 Hooker
4 Burnside
5 Meade (fought at Gettysburg)