Causes of the war
What issue divided the North and South the most?
What is slavery
President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
First major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Soldiers often suffered from this due to poor hygiene and medical care.
What is disease?
To withdraw from a country.
What is secede?
This law required citizens to return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Turning point battle in Pennsylvania.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Women often worked as these during the war.
What are nurses?
A state that allows slavery.
What is a slave state?
This compromise tried to keep balance between free and slave states in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
General of the Union Army who accepted the Confederate surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Battle that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This group faced shortages of food and supplies more often.
Who is the Confederacy (South)?
A state that does not allow slavery.
What is a free state?
This event involved a violent fight over slavery in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Confederate general known for his leadership in Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This attack started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Name for Northern states.
What is the Union?
It declared that all enslaved people in the Confederate (Southern) states were free.
This election led Southern states to secede.
What is Abraham Lincoln’s election (1860)?
Former enslaved person who became a spy for the Union.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Final major event where Lee surrendered.
What is Appomattox Court House?
Freed enslaved people often joined this army.
What is the Union Army?
What does CSA stand for?