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The first state to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina
The first official land battle of the Civil War.
What is Bull Run/Manassas?
President Lincoln was the first president elected from this political party.
What is the Republican Party?
Who was the President of the Union
Abraham Lincoln
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
South
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this long-held law regarding the expansion of slavery to new American territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This battle, which occurred in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
Lincoln debated Stephen Douglas in his famous debates during their race for this political office.
What is Senator from Illinois?
Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
Northern; Southern
This President annexed Texas, leading to conflict between Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders.
Who is James K. Polk?
Grant's siege of this city on the Mississippi River helped split the Confederacy into two parts.
What is Vicksburg?
This was the political party Lincoln was affiliated with before 1854.
What is the Whig party?
Who were two major Confederate Generals?
Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North)
This author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" causes a furor by depicting the cruel life of slaves in the South.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Lee's "Lost Orders" helped lead to Union victory in this battle
What is Antietam?
This was Honest Abe's Opponent in the 1864 Presidential Election.
Who is General George B. McClellan?
What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What were some effects of the war on the South?
Cities, buildings, and plantations were burned and destroyed, slaves were freed in the former Confederacy
Radical Abolitionist John Brown was caught after his raid in this town.
What is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia in the Court House of this city.
What is Appomattox?
Lincoln was born in this state.
What is Kentucky?
How did Lincoln die?
He was assassinated while watching a play with his wife.
Along what river was the South split in two?
The Mississippi