Causes
What is the event which sparked the Southern secession?
What is the election of 1860?
This Union general led Union forces in the West, winning famous victories at Shiloh and Vicksburg.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The name of the campaign to Georgia which lead to lower southern confederate morale in 1864?
What is William Sherman’s march to the sea?
What is the site of the formal surrender of General Lee and the Confederate Army?
What is Appomattox Court House?
What document set slaves free, but was rendered useless?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What book is said to have “helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War”?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This Union general ordered troops to march to South Carolina and burn and destroy fields, homes, and cities as they marched through Georgia.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
What is the definition of attrition? Did the Union or Confederacy utilise attrition more?
What is wearing down one’s enemy until they are depleted / the confederacy?
What war proved the Civil War would be long and bloody?
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
Which side of the War had a more strategic advantage based on transportation?
What is the North?
What treaty sparked a large debate over the use of slavery in the south western territory gained by the United States?
What is The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
Northern Democrats who demanded a peace settlement with the Confederacy?
Who are Copperheads?
What is “cotton diplomacy”?
What is the confederate strategy of ransoming their cotton exports in order to get aid from France and Britain?
This was the final major Confederate push into the North. Lee’s defeat ended any hope of Britain or France from recognizing the Confederacy as its own nation.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
What new technology gave the North the upper hand on weaponry?
What are interchangeable parts?
Why was Lincoln’s election seen as a direct cause for the Civil War?
What is he won presidency without a single southern vote?
Confederate general and tactician who took men on long marches to outsmart the Union. He led troops to victory at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is “Stonewall” Jackson?
The Union tactical strategy named “the Anaconda Plan” was hingent on what two ideas for success?
What is controlling the Mississippi (blockading the south) and a nonviolent approach to end the war?
What battles helped the Union capture the Mississippi river?
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
What law was suspended that allowed people to be arrested without trial?
What is Habeas Corpus?
The bloody conflict that occurred due to squatter sovereignty.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Who was the Union Army general who was very timid on the battlefield? He was also removed after Antietam.
Who is George McClellan?
This was used by both the North and the South in a five hour long battle that ended up as a draw. They are steam-powered warship armored in iron plates.
What are Ironclads
Where did the Confederate Army fire upon the unarmed merchant vessel Star of the West?
What is Fort Sumter?
In this man's essay, he argues society as a whole benefits when a few business people are able to amass huge amounts of wealth. Name the man and the essay.
Who is Andrew Carnegie and what is the Gospel of Wealth?