Civil War Battles
Where did the first shots of the Civil War take place?
Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina
Who was the President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the cause of the Civil War?
The debate of slavery
What was another name for the North?
A rebellion of enslaved people led by Nat Turner that took place in Virginia in 1831
Nat Turner's Rebellion
What was an advantage that the South faced when it came to fighting during the Civil War?
The South had the advantage of fighting in their own territory
Who was the General of the Confederate Army?
Robert E Lee
Who was fighting during the Civil War?
The Union and Confederacy
What was another name for the South?
The Confederacy
An order issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring people enslaved in the Confederate states to be free
Emancipation Proclamation
The most well known battle of the Civil War
the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who was the final commander of the Union Army?
Ulysses S. Grant
During what years was the Civil War fought?
1861-1865
What is an abolitionist?
People in the 18th and 19th centuries who fought to immediately end slavery in the United States
What does it mean to secede?
To formally break away from a group or country to become independent
What was the name of the naval battle that occured in March 1862?
The Battle of Monitor v. Merrimack
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Who won the Civil War?
An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state that allowed enslavement and Maine was admitted as a state that banned enslavement
The Missouri Compromise:
an act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories
Kansas-Nebraska Act:
Where did the the Confederate army under General Lee surrender?
Appomattox, Virginia
Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
What was an advantage that the North had when it came to manufacturing?
Transportation and railroads
US law that forced people in Northern "free" states to help catch, capture, and return enslaved people who had escaped from the South
the Fugitive Slave Law?
a speech by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg in memory of the Union soldiers who had died trying to protect the ideals of freedom upon which the nation was founded
the Gettysburg Address