Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
Secede
This program helped to provide food, clothing, and medical care to freed people and poor whites.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
Which section of the United States is the Union?
The North
What was the result of the Union winning the Battle of Vicksburg?
Union control of the Mississippi River.
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The first battle shots that started the Civil War
What was the Fort Sumter?
Which section of the United States is the Confederacy?
The South
What 2 advantages did the Confederacy have in the Civil War?
Home field advantage & military leader.
President of the Union
Abraham Lincoln
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Amendment ended slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
How did the Civil War end?
General Lee surrendering at Appomattox Courthouse
This was a law that required citizens to turn in people that they suspected of being a runaway slave.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Who was the main union general?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where?
What are Southern states/confederacy?
The name of the laws that the South passed to limit the rights of freedmen.
Which battle gave the North control of the Mississippi River
Vicksburg
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
What happened with President Lincoln due to the union winning the war in 1864
Lincoln was re-elected
The general that was killed by his own men.
Who is General "Stonewall" Jackson?
This was Lincoln's motive behind the Emancipation Proclamation.
To encourage freed black, slaves from the south to support the Union/Shift the focus of the war to freedom
What is the Amendment that stated anyone in the United States is a citizen and has equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Which battle was the single bloodiest day battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
What was the name of slave states that stayed in the Union?
Border States