Causes
He revolted against his owner's family in 1831, causing laws against slaves to be stricter.
Who was Nat Turner?
These people didn’t believe in slavery.
Who were abolitionists?
Opposing presidents of the Union and the Confederacy.
Who were Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
The first major battle in Virginia.
What was the first Battle of Bull Run?
They had better access to railroads.
Who were the Union forces?
He raided the U.S. Armory in Harper’s Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
The name of the path that escaping slaves used.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The Union General who later become president of the United States.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Major battle in Virginia won by the Confederates, led by Robert E. Lee
What was the Battle of Fredericksburg?
They had highly qualified generals, especially at the beginning of the war.
Who were the Confederacy?
Abraham Lincoln's election caused this.
What is South Carolina leaving the Union?
This aspect of the northern economy made slavery less necessary.
What is an industrial economy without large plantations?
The Confederate General who won the Battle of Fredericksburg and three years later surrendered the war to General Grant.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
A battle at sea between the Monitor (for the Union) and the Merrimack (for the Confederacy).
What was the Battle of Hampton Roads, or the battle of the Ironclads?
They won the Civil War.
Who were The Union (North)?
After the Emancipation Proclamation, it was clear the Civil War was about this issue.
What is slavery?
The date the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect?
What is Jan. 1st, 1863?
He won the first Battle of Bull Run for the South.
Who was Stonewall Jackson?
The Confederacy did this when General Grant's troops made it to Richmond in 1865?
What is evacuated and burned the city?
This side started many troops made up of former slaves and free African Americans after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who were the Union.
Abraham Lincoln declared war to stop of southern states from doing this.
What is seceding or leaving the Union?
This invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves.
What is Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin?
Where Abraham Lincoln's death took place.
What is he was assassinated while watching a play with his wife?
Where the Confederacy surrendered.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
They were fighting on their own land and had better shooters.
Who were the confederacy?