Causes of the Civil War
Civil War Vocab
Battles of the Civil War
Civil War Dates
Civil War People
100
What are the Fugitive Slave Laws?
What is a law that required all citizens to catch runaway slaves or be fined or jailed as a result.
100
To leave
What is secede?
100
Turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
100
What battle happened on April 12-14, 1861?
What is Fort Sumter?
100
President of the Union
Who is Lincoln?
200
The compromise that forbid states above the 36' 30" parallel line to be a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
person against slavery
What is an abolitionist?
200
Bloodiest Battle of the War
What is Antietam?
200
Jan 1 1863, Lincoln signed this document freeing the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
President of the South
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
Each state decides if it is free or slave.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
unfair treatment of a person
What is discrimination?
300
Lee surrendered to Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
300
Battle of Gettyburg
What is July 1-3, 1863?
300
Lead general for the South
Who is General Lee?
400
Bleeding Kansas was a result of this.
What is illegal voting on the issue of slavery?
400
Escape route for slaves from the North to South.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
General Jackson gets his nickname "Stonewall"
What is Bull Run or Manassas?
400
Battle of Antietam
What is Sept. 17, 1862?
400
Union General that led Total War on the South
Who is General Sherman?
500
Northern and Southern Goal before the war.
What is North- Preserve the Union? What is South- Defend their New Independence?
500
States that seceded from the Union.
What are the Confederate States?
500
Pickett's Charge
What is Gettysburg?
500
Event on April 9, 1865?
What is Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse?
500
Earned the nickname Stonewall at the Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
Who is General Jackson?