Vocabulary
This is a term used to describe something belonging to the time period before the Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
Abraham Lincoln was a part of this political party, which formed in the 1850s and was opposed to the issue of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
Fought in Charleston County, South Carolina, this is the site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
The 13th Amendment, which passed Congress in January 1865 and was ratified in December of the same year, was created to do what?
What is abolish slavery?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the name of the military academy that was attended by the likes of William Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee.
What is West Point?
This was a name given to many Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War and supported the Republicans
What is a carpetbagger?
Cotton was a huge cash crop in the south and helped to dive their economy. In 1793, Eli Whitney invented this device, which made it easier to process the harvested product.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Fought in southwestern Tennessee, this battle was fought due to the South's desire to control the Tennessee River.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
On April 14, 1865 this man assassinated Abraham Lincoln at the Ford Theater.
What is John Wilkes Booth?
This individual was President of the Confederate States of America, the name given to the states who seceded during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This was Lincoln's secret weapon during the war, giving the Union the advantage in terms of transportation of troops and supplies.
What is the railroad?
This is a term for when part of a country breaks away from its own country.
What is secede?
As opposed to the southern economy which was driven by agriculture, the northern economy was driven by what?
What is industry?
This was the first battle fought on Union soil, and was the single bloodiest day of the war, resulting in 23,000 casualties.
What is Antietam?
Black codes, along with these types of laws, were state and local ordinances that further restricted the rights of African Americans and promoted segregation and disenfranchisement.
What are Jim Crow laws?
The General of the Confederate Army, this graduate of West Point is considered one of the greatest military minds from the Civil War. The South would have lost the war much sooner without his expertise.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
This individual was a man held in bondage who attempted to sue for his freedom. He argued that having lived in a free state before returning to Missouri made him a free man.
Who is Dred Scott?
The fact or process of being set free is called this.
What is emancipation?
Figures such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Tubman were all instrumental in aiding the eradication of slavery. A person who fights to end slavery is known as this.
What is an Abolitionist?
This battle is famous for the use of ironclad ships, which would replace wooden ones.
What is Hampton Roads?
This amendment to the Constitution passed in 1866, and stated that people born or naturalized in the United States are citizens with full rights and are entitled to due process.
What is the 14th amendment?
Who is John Brown?
This is the name given to William Sherman's campaign through Georgia. Burning towns from Atlanta to Savannah, Sherman set out to break the back of the south and "make Georgia howl."
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This was the name given to Southerners who supported Republicans and Reconstruction of the South
What is a scallawag?
This is the name given to the violent fighting that broke out when both pro and anti slavery groups rushed the border of Kansans to vote on if it would be a free or slave state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
At this battle, Union forces captured the Southern capital of Richmond, and ended the war when Lee surrendered to Grant.
What is Appomattox?
The 15th amendment guaranteed the right to do this, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is vote?
The 18th President of the United States, this individual was General of the Union Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Clara Barton, a nurse during the Civil War, went on to found this organization that provided medical care such as amputations during the war.
What is the American Red Cross?