Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
An event where a city is surrounded until they surrender due to lack of supplies.
What is a siege?
This state was the first to secede in December of 1860.
What is South Carolina?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
The first shots of the war were fired here.
What is Charleston, SC?
The Union general who later became President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Group of people opposed to slavery.
What are abolitionists?
How did the Union keep the South from getting supplies during the war?
They blocked off water routes like sea ports and the Mississippi River.
This three 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?
The person who issued the Emancipation Proclamation and gave the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
When a state declares it is leaving the country.
What is Secession / Seceding?
Lincoln's speech given after a very important battle.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This battle was key to fulfilling the Anaconda plan (taking the Mississippi River).
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
State where the Battle of Gettysburg took place.
What is Pennsylvania?
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?
What important non-profit health organization was founded in Massachusetts during the Civil War?
What is the American Red Cross?
TRUE or FALSE: over 600,000 people died during the Civil War.
TRUE.
Sherman's March to the Sea was mostly in this state.
What is Georgia?
A famous abolitionist who promoted the inclusion of freed Black soldiers in the war effort.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Proposed by Union General-in-Chief Winfield Scott, this plan emphasized a Union blockade of the Southern ports and called for an advance down the Mississippi River to cut the South in two.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to the Union in April 1865?
What is Appomattox, VA?
This event kicked off the Civil War.
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
Name a slave state that stayed in the union (also known as a border state).
What is Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland?