Civil War People
The American President during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
The first conflict of the Civil War. Took place in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
This side called themselves the Confederate States of America.
What is the South?
This President served only two terms, and inspired (almost) all Presidents after him to do the same.
Who is George Washington?
The Union general who later became President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This term means you are leaving a larger group.
What is secession?
The Battle of Antietam is known for being the __________ day in American history.
What is bloodiest/most deaths?
This novel inspired many people to become abolitionists based on the portrayal of slavery within it.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This invention allowed for fast long-distance communication via morse code.
What is the telegraph?
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
He attacked the armory at Harpers Ferry to capture weapons to fight against slavery.
What is John Brown?
This event caused the South to secede from the Union.
What is Lincoln's election?
The economy of the Southern states was based on this product.
What is cotton?
This President is on the $20 bill and helped remove property requirements from voting.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
A Virginian who turned down the job from the Northern Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
What is manifest destiny?
The new state created when Virginia seceded from the United States.
What is West Virginia?
This state was the site of a pre-Civil War battle where pro- and anti-slavery forces battled each other, known as Bleeding __________.
What is Kansas?
This person accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition across the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Sacajawea?
This individual was an escaped slave who wrote a famous autobiography and became an abolitionist.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This state was involved in a compromise where states south of it would allow slavery while states north of it would not.
What is Missouri?
This region of the country, bought by Thomas Jefferson, was the location of conflict over free and slave states entering the Union.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This state was an independent country for a decade before entering the Union in 1845. The U.S. fought a war with Mexico over it.
What is Texas?