Battles
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Who was elected in the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Declared that all enslaved people were now free.
Abolitionist
Someone who opposed and speak out against slavery
What's 7x42?
294
What war tactic did General Sherman use in his 'March to the Sea'?
Total War
What were the FULL NAMES of the main two generals from each side (Union & Confederate)?
Robert E. Lee & Ulysses S. Grant
Did the Emancipation Proclamation apply to the Union or Confederate states?
TO BOTH!!!
Casualty
Someone who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in battle
What staff member has been working at SLJH the longest?
Mr. Aguilar
What date (month, day, year) did General Lee surrender to General Grant at Appomattox Court House?
April 12, 1865
Who teaches in Room 203?
Why couldn't Lincoln just simply say and enforce that there would be no more slavery?
He still had to go through Congress and the Supreme Court, the other branches of government.
Grayback
A Confederate soldier
Who is Mr. Marsh's favorite student?
George Washington (oh so handsome)
What was the three-day battle occurring in Pennsylvania?
Battle of Gettysburg
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilks Booth
After what battle gave Congress the courage to pass Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle of Antitem
Emancipation
The process of being set free from legal or social restrictions
Why does Mr. Marsh have a receding hair line?
BECAUSE HIS STUDENTS STRESS HIM OUT!
What early battle did civilians have a picnic and watched the fighting occur?
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Who was the extreme abolitionist leader that killed many people in Kansas, took over an armory in Kansas, was captured by Robert E. Lee, and then hanged. *ps. not Nat Turner*
John Brown
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War where the country was trying to rebuild itself, both physically and our country's spirit
When this building was the High School, what building was the old Junior High?
Nikolaus Homestead