Battles/Battlefields
Battle of April 12, 1861
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever ___."
What is free?
The Union Army first used the camp in 1861 as an organizational and training camp for volunteer regiments. It became a prisoner-of-war camp in early 1862. Later in 1862 the Union Army again used_______ as a training camp
What is Camp Douglas?
The killer of Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
____________was an early feminist activist and strong advocate for ending slavery. A powerful orator, she dedicated her life to speaking out against racial and gender injustice. ... Mott was one of the founders of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833. Not everyone supported women's public speaking.
Who is Lucretia Mott?
Beginning early on the morning of September 17, 1862, Confederate and Union troops in the Civil War clash near Maryland's Antietam Creek in the bloodiest single day in American military history.
What was The Battle of Antietam?
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under_____ control
What was the Union?
At night, soldiers slept in pairs in small_____.
What is a canvas tent?
The day Lincoln died
April 15, 1865
an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, leading enslaved people to freedom before the Civil War, all while carrying a bounty on her head. But she was also a nurse, a Union spy and a women's suffrage supporter.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
______________was an American Civil War battle fought near Winchester, Virginia, on September 19, 1864.
Battle of Winchester, also known as the Battle of Opequon or Battle of Opequon Creek
____________issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What was camp life like in the civil war?
President Lincoln dies at 7:22 a.m. __________ Saw Lincoln die, "Now he belongs to the ages." Having broken his right fibula while jumping to the stage at Ford's Theater
Who is Secretary of War Edwin M.?
DAILY DOUBLE!___________risked her life distributing supplies to soldiers. She started off assisting the wounded at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861.
Who is Clara Barton?
fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863.
What was The Battle of Gettysburg?
The Emancipation Proclamation was an order by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in__ States
What is the 10 states?
sometimes described as "The North's Andersonville," was one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the American Civil War.
What is Camp Douglas?
at 516 10th street was the home of William and Anna Petersen. On the night of April 14, 1865 the mortally wounded president was carried to a back bedroom in this house.
what is the Petersen house?
One of the Confederacy's most famous spies, ______'s life played out like a James Bond character: she was betrayed by a lover, later captured taking Confederate papers to England, and fell in love with and married her captor.
Who is Belle Boyd?
_____________was fought August 29–30, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War.
What was the battle of Bull Run or Battle of Second Manassas?
_____________did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free."
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
Civil War winters were particularly trying and monotonous for the armies. ..._____ where built?
What is a winter hut?
After John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865, he dropped his ______ pistol
What was the derringer?
Who is Mary Todd Lincoln?