Causes
This major moral and economic issue was the primary cause of the Civil War.
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Este importante problema moral y económico fue la causa principal de la Guerra Civil.
What is: Slavery
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Qué es: Esclavitud
The President of the United States and the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War? (Must name BOTH)
Who are: Abraham Lincoln & Jefferson Davis
This city was the Union capital during the Civil War.
What is: Washington, D.C.?
The Civil War began when shots were fired at this fort in South Carolina.
What is: Fort Sumter
President Lincoln issued this executive order after the Battle of Antietam, declaring all enslaved people in confederate territory to be "thenceforward, and forever free".
What is: The Emancipation Proclamation
Southern States chose to do this -- meaning to formally leave the union.
What is: Secede
The most prominent Generals for the both the Union and Confederate Armies during the Civil War? (Must name BOTH)
Who are: Ulysses S. Grant & Robert E. Lee
This city became the Confederate capital after Montgomery.
What is: Richmond, Virginia
This early battle in Virginia showed the war would be long and bloody.
What is: The First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Enslaved people who escaped to Union lines were called this.
What are: Contrabands of War
This belief that states could self-govern, and ignore or leave the federal government.
What is: States' Rights?
This escaped enslaved man became a powerful abolitionist speaker and advisor to Lincoln.
Who is: Frederick Douglass
The FIRST Southern state to break away from the Union in 1860.
What is: South Carolina
This July 1863 battle in Pennsylvania was considered the turning point of the war.
What is: The Battle of Gettysburg
Harriet Tubman was nicknamed "Moses" of this network of secret routes and safe houses by which enslaved people could escape to freedom.
What is: The Underground Railroad
The growing differences between the North and South—economic, political, and cultural—are known as this.
What is: Sectionalism
This Union general led the “March to the Sea” through Georgia.
Who is: William Tecumseh Sherman
Lee surrendered to Grant at this Virginia courthouse.
What is: Appomattox Court House
This Mississippi fortress fell on July 4, 1863, giving the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is: Vicksburg
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe of Cincinnati angered the South and energized abolitionists.
What is: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This 1854 act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery.
What is: The Kansas-Nebraska Act
She was a nurse during the war and later founded the American Red Cross.
Who is: Clara Barton
Winfield Scott’s plan to squeeze the South with blockades and river control had this nickname.
What is: The Anaconda Plan
The names of the two ships that fought at the Battle of Hampton Roads/Battle of the Ironclads?
What are: The Monitor and the Merrimack/Virginia
This 1850s law required Americans to help return escaped enslaved people.
What is: The Fugitive Slave Act?