Battles
What was the ironclad ship for the Union?
the Monitor
Who led over 70 people to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What political party was founded on the idea that slaver should not be allowed in the United States territories?
Republican party
What declared freedom for all slaves in the states that had left the Union?
Emancipation Proclamation
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
What was the first major battle won by the South?
First Battle of Bull Run
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book about the cruel treatment of slaves?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What important act was part of the Compromise of 1850?
Fugitive Slave Act
Where was President Lincoln shot and killed?
Ford's Theatre
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What battle gave the Union army control of the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy in half?
Battle of Vicksburg
Who was the president of the Confederate states?
Jefferson Davis
What was the Thirteenth Amendment?
It outlawed slavery in the United States
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who was Robert E. Lee?
the commander of the Confederate army
What battle was the turning point of the war?
The Battle of Gettysburg
Who was nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender"?
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the 3-minute speech by President Lincoln that honored fallen Union and Confederate soldiers?
Gettysburg Address
Who carried out orders to "march to the sea" and burned everything in its path?
General William T. Sherman
Who was the early Union commander of the army of the Potomac?
George McClellan
At which battle did more soldiers die than during any other battle of the Civil War?
Antietam
What slave brought an important case to the Supreme Court regarding slave ownership?
Dred Scott
Where did the Civil War end?
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Where did the Civil War begin?
Fort Sumter
Who wrote a book about his life as a slave?
Frederick Davis