Generals
He was the General of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This was considered the first attack and initial Northern surrender at the beginning of the war.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This is a term used to describe the period before the war
What is Antebellum?
This Amendment allowed African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
A northerner who moved to the south after the war to earn money.
What is a carpetbagger?
He destroyed the South in order to make southerners realize they couldn't win the war during this famous march.
Who is General Sherman?
Over 23,000 men fell as casualties in the one-day at this battle. The Union victory at Antietam resulted in President Abraham Lincoln issuing his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle at Antietam?
He was a person who led a slave rebellion before the war.
Who is John Brown?
This Amendment abolished slavery and allowed the liberation of many people in the south.
What is the 13th amendment?
A term used to describe the Northern economy before and after the Civil War. (factories and shops)
What is industrialized?
He was a Military leader who stood like a 'stone wall' while fighting in the first Battle of Bull Run
Who is Thomas Jackson?
This battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War because the Confederacy lost so many men during this famous battle.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
She believed that slavery was immoral and wrote a book portraying how wrong it was that ultimately convinced many people to abolish slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A time period that allowed Northerners and Southerners to rebuild their lives due to the devastation of the war.
What is the Reconstruction Era?
A term used to describe the Southern economy. (crops and plants)
What is agricultural?
He was the General that Robert E. Lee surrendered to.
Who is Ulysses Grant?
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at this now historic location.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
Maine was added as a state to this compromise before the Civil War in order to create a balance between the number of free states and slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is the document that allowed men to fight for the Union in exchange for freedom?
What is the emancipation proclamation?
The process in which states are ONLY loyal to themselves and no other states.
What is Sectionalism
He delivered the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Gettysburg Address was given after this famous battle by President Abraham Lincoln.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was a case where the courts ruled that slaves were not citizens regardless of being born in the United States.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
A way for former slaves and farmers to earn money by renting land in exchange to grow their own crops.
What is sharecropping?
The process in which a state rejects a law.
What is Nullification?