Civil War Leaders
He was president during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Women like Clara Barton helped soldiers in need by performing this important job.
What is a nurse?
The year that Abraham Lincoln became president.
What is 1860?
A large farm in the South.
What is a plantation?
The number of states Lincoln won in the South on Election Day in November, 1860.
What is zero?
The general who was the overall commander of the Confederate States Army, and surrendered to end the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This famous woman guided about 300 people to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The year the Civil War began.
What is 1861?
To leave the Union.
What is secede?
Lincoln was born in this state, but later moved to Indiana, and then to Illinois.
What is Kentucky?
The commanding general who led the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This woman founded the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
The year the Civil War ended.
What is 1865?
A person who wanted slaves to be freed.
What is an abolitionist?
Lincoln's presidential order that said all slaves living in the parts of the South still fighting against the Union would be freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Confederate General who stopped the retreat at Bull Run by "standing like a stone wall."
Who was General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This woman traveled the country speaking out against slavery, and changed her first name to a word that means "traveler," and her last name to a word that means "honesty."
Who was Sojourner Truth?
What is 1863?
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were torn between the two sides of the war because they were each one of these.
What is a border state?
He ran against Lincoln in the election of 1860, and believed western settlers should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This woman wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a story about slaves being mistreated by a cruel owner.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
In July 1861, the first major battle between the Union and Confederacy was called this.
What is the Battle of Bull Run or the Battle of Manassas?
The name of the strategy the Union used to squeeze the South by not letting it ship its cotton, or bring in goods, by winning control of the Mississippi River.
The Anaconda Plan
The name of the short speech Lincoln gave to dedicate a cemetery for the Union soldiers who died...
What is The Gettysburg Address?