Confederate General
Robert E. Lee
battle that was the turning point of the war
Gettysburg
What is it called when a rule/idea is added to the Constitution?
Amendment
Highest government over all, forever on the throne?
Sovereignty of God (he sits on the throne)
The ironclad ship of the Confederates
Merrimack
series of routes leading the slaves to the free north
Union General
McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant
First major battle of the Civil War
Battle of Bull Run
What did the Thirteenth Amendment outlawed what in the US?
slavery
Judicial, Executive, Legislative
The ironclad ship of the Union
The Monitor
declared freedom for all slaves in the states that left the Union
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was elected president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
location of Lee's surrender to Grant
Appomattox Court House
What act allowed Kansas to join the Union as a slave state?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What party was founded on the belief that slavery should not be allowed in the United States territories?
Republican
Founder of the Red Cross?
Clara Barton
a person who believed the practice of slavery should be abolished is a
abolitionist
After escaping slavery, who led many people to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
place where Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Ford's Theatre
What allowed slavery in new U.S. territories after being brought before the court by a slave trying to get free?
Dred Scott Decision
First state to secede from the Union
Virginia
Old Abe
abolitionist who wrote a book about his life as a slave
Fredrick Douglas
What general led a "march to the sea" near the end of the Civil war, burning and destroying everything on their path?
General Sherman
First shots of the civil war were fired at?
Fort Sumter
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of what?
Compromise of 1850
Final capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond, Virginia
What was Ulysses S. Grant's nickname?
Unconditional Surrender Grant
abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe