Causes of the War
What sectional issue most directly led to the Southern secession?
Slavery
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Who commanded Confederate forces early and won several key victories?
Robert E Lee
What 1861 battle showed the war would be a long and costly one?
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
What 1820 compromise attempted to balance free and slave state using latitude 36-30?
Missouri Compromise
What was the capital of the Confederacy after 1861?
Richmond, Virginia
What union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River?
Anaconda Plan
What was the Confederacy's primary military strategy?
Defensive War / War of Attrition
Which 1862 battle gave Lincoln the opportunity to issue the Emancipation of Proclamation?
What 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who was elected president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Which general eventually led Union forces to victory in 1865?
Thomas Stonewall Jackson
What 1863 battle is considered the war' turning point in the East?
Battle of Gettysburg
Which Supreme Court case ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories and that slaves had absolutely no rights.
Dred Scott v Sanford
What doctrine emphasized state sovereignty and limited central government in the South?
state rights
Which Union general was famously cautious early in the war and later fired by Lincoln?
George McClellan
Why did the Confederacy struggle to gain foreign recognition?
Which 1863 campaign gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?
Battle/Siege of Vicksburg
What event in 1859 heightened Southern fears of slave revolts and Northern abolitionism?
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
Which upper stated seceded only after Fort Sumter?
Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina
What 1863 speech reframed the war as a fight for democracy and equality.
Gettysburg Address
What economic strategy failed when Britain found alternative cotton sources?
King Cotton Diplomacy
What 1864 campaign used total war tactics to break Southern morale?
Sherman's March to the Sea