Vocabulary
People who want to end slavery.
Who were abolitionists?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War?
South Carolina secedes
What was the first state to leave the United States?
Won the election of 1860
Who was Abraham Lincoln
The northern states led by Abraham Lincoln.
What was the Union?
Robert E. Lee
Who was the leader of the Confederate troops?
Fort Sumter
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Upset about the election of 1860 results
What are southern states?
The 11 states that seceded from the United States.
What was the Confederacy?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was a General of the United States Army during the Civil War?
Border States
What are the state between the Union and the Confederacy?
April 12, 1862
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The fact or process of being set from from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation
What is emancipation?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Antietam
What was the winning battle that Lincoln needed to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
Emancipation Proclamation
What is freed the enslaved people in the Confederacy
to formally withdraw from a country or state
What is to secede?
William Seward
Who was the Secretary of State during Lincoln's presidency?
Confederacy
What are the 11 states that left the United States during the Civil War?
September 17,1862
What was the Battle of Antietam