Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
Seized possessions and property during war; the north argued slaves were this and could be freed.
What is contraband?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
The first battle of the Civil War
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter? or Charleston, SC?
Which side called themselves the Confederacy
What is the South?
The Union general who later became President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
This event kicked off the Civil War
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
This 3 day battle was the deadliest conflict in North American history
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
The capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
Northern advantages in the war.
What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads?
She founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
He attacked the armory at Harpers Ferry to capture weapons to fight against slavery.
What is John Brown?
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This battle took place about one year after the first one with the same name.
What is the 2nd Battle of Bull Run?
The town near where the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fought.
What is Hampton Roads, Virginia
The economy of the Southern states was based on this product.
What is cotton.
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The new state created when Virginia seceded from the United States.
What is West Virginia?
In what battle did the North try to take control of a Southern Railroad hub
The Battle of Fredericksburg
The other name for the 1st Battle of Bull Run.
What is the Battle of Manassas.
The capital city of the Confederate States
What was Richmond, Virginia?
Stole the CSS Planter and delivered it to the Northern Army.
Who is Robert Smalls.
He organized a slave revolt bt was captured and hanged.
Who is Nat Turner?
The final major battle of the Civil War and the location of the surrender by General Robert E. Lee.
What was Appomattox.
Another name for the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia
What is the battle of the Ironclads?
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia and Delaware
What are slave states that remained in the union?
The most common cause of death during the war
What is disease/infection?
The Northern General at the Battle of Fredericksburg whose bad decisions led to hundreds of Union casualties
Who is General Burnside
This many states seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America.
What is 11?
General Stonewall Jackson helped lead the Confederate Army to victory at this battle
What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run
The Union General who captured Richmond
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
This law stated that any enslaved African Americans who ran away could find refugee behind Union lines.
What was the Confiscation Acts.