Names
Led violent attacks in Kansas and Harpers Ferry
Who was John Brown
The bloodiest single day of the Civil War
What was Antietam?
John Brown led a raid to take control of an arsenal.
What is Harper's Ferry?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The “shot heard round the world” describes the beginning of these battles in the American Revolution.
What is Lexington and Concord?
President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
First major battle of the Civil War.
What was Bull Run?
Union victory at Vicksburg allowed control of this geographic location.
What is the Mississippi River?
Devotion to the interests of a region over those of a country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
What is 1863?
Victor of election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Pickett's Charge
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Union Capital.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
What is secession?
Freed slaves in states rebelling against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Union general who led March to the Sea
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
What was Fort Sumter?
Richmond.
What is the Confederate capital?
The action of a state impeding or attempting to prevent the operation and enforcement within its territory of a law of the U.S
What is nullification?
Confederate States of America formed in this year.
What is 1861?
General surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The battle that allowed control of the Mississippi River
What is the Battle at Vicksburg?
First state to secede.
What is South Carolina?
The rights and powers not expressly identified in the U.S. Constitution as belonging to the federal government and that therefore belong to the states.
What is State's Rights?
Confederate general killed by friendly fire.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?