Causes of the CW
This person was elected the 16th POTUS...his election prompted a southern state to leave the union (SECEDE) immediately?
Abraham Lincoln
Commanding general of all Union troops (the North) at the end of the Civil War? (clue- he won it for the North!)
Ulysses S. Grant
This state was the first to SECEDE from the Union, 10 other states would eventually do the same?
South Carolina
The bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War took place HERE? (clue- "Antman")
Battle of Antietam
Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
This famous book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, revealed many of the horrors of slavery in the South..what was the book called?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The man that the CSA elected to be their president?
Jefferson Davis
This is the hard- to- say name of the town where the Civil War came to an end, with Lee surrendering to Grant?
Appomattox Courthouse
This was the largest battle in the Civil War...it lasted 3 days, had over 50,000 casualties and was memorialized in a famous speech by President Lincoln?
Battle of Gettysburg
This document was written by 5 men, issued in 1776 and is basically a breakup letter directed at a monarch?
Declaration of Independence
In the Missouri Compromise, Missouri was added to the Union as a SLAVE state. What was added as a FREE state?
Maine
This man created the Emancipation Proclamation, an effort to free the slaves in 1863?
Abraham Lincoln
During the Civil War, the map of the USA was split into "Union states", "Confederate states" and what third category?
border states
-Missouri -Maryland
-Kentucky -Delaware
This Civil War battle was a History Mystery, took place on the shores of the Mississippi River and was won by the Union, catapulting U.S. Grant to recognition as a skilled general?
Battle of Vicksburg
An estimated _______ (how many?) women fought in disguise during the Civil War?
~ 400
A victory for the South, the verdict of this Supreme Court case in 1857 said that a slave was property and remained a slave wherever he or she was taken?
A history mystery, this woman was a heroic nurse of the Civil War period and went on to found the Red Cross?
Clara Barton
What current STATE capital was once the capital of the Confederacy (the South)?
Richmond, VA
The first battle of the Civil War, an unexpected Confederate victory, was fought HERE...just outside of Washington, D.C.?
(clue- "cow sprint")
Battle of Bull Run
The U.S.acquired this territory from Mexico- it would one day include the states of CA, NV, UT, CO, NM and AZ?
Mexican Cession
John Brown conducted a daring raid on a Virginia arsenal, hoping to arm a slave rebellion? What was the name of the TOWN in which that arsenal existed?
Harper's Ferry, VA
This man was the commanding general of the Confederate Army (the South) and won many battles, making the war a long, drawn out struggle?
Robert E. Lee
What country came very close to supporting the Confederates in the Civil War, but didn't, because the South had slavery?
England
The Emancipation Proclamation attempted to free the slaves...what else did it allow free African- American men to do?
sign up to fight for the Union!
Name TWO southern cities that Union general William T. Sherman virtually destroyed in his "March to the Sea"
Atlanta (GA), Savannah (GA), Columbia (SC)