Battles
What is known as the bloodiest day in USA history?
What is Antietam?
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
abolitionists
Who was the President of the Confederate states?
Jefferson Davis
The name was given to ships like the Monitor and Merrimack.
What are ironclads
Who won the Civil War?
The Union
where were the first shots in the civil war shot?
What is the Battle of Fort Sumpter.
What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin
Who was the president of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
What plan did General Scott create that had three steps to putting down the rebels?
What was the Anaconda Plan?
Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender?
Appomattox Court House
What was the first major battle of the Civil War?
What is The 1st Bull Run.
What about the northern economy that made slavery less necessary?
The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations
Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
The name given to Northerners who wanted peace with the South.
What were Copperheads?
What is the first state that seceded from the Union?
South Carolina
Which battle granted the first Union victory?
What is the battle of Fort Henry.
Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
She was an escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad
Who were the two major Confederate Generals?
Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
The name of the person that raided Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
The location president Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Gettysburg?
What was the reward at the siege of Vicksburg?
What is the Union gained the Mississippi river in the Siege of Vicksburg.
What about the southern economy that made slavery seem necessary?
They were primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops
What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What was the main reason for the civil war?
The southern states wanted to keep slaves, and the Northern states wanted to end it.
Name 4 states from the Confederates.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.