Civil War People
16th U.S. President and issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
A Confederate Victory, one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Bull Run.
Main Conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
7th U.S. President from 1829-1837 and he was the only President to pay off national debt.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
John Brown's Fort in West Virginia.
What is Harper's Ferry?
18th President and military officer for the Union who led them to victory in 1865.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Where President Lincoln delivered the ________ address, November of 1863.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Escaped Slavery in Maryland and he wrote many anti-slavery writings along with working with the underground railroad.
Who was Fredrick Douglass?
Confederate General during the Civil War and was shot by Confederate forces at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
Who was Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson?
An anti-slavery act that entered Kansas into the Union as a free state.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
Studied at West Point Military School and was a General for the Confederacy from Virginia.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
It was the Bombardment of _________ near Charleston, South Carolina, it marked the official beginning of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Wrote an anti-slavery newspaper in 1831 named the Liberator and led many successful campaigns against slavery.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
American nurse who founded the American Red Cross and she taught herself how to become a nurse.
Who was Clara Barton?
A court case that denied the legality of black citizenship in America and said that the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional.
What was the Dred Scott case?
Led the Peninsular campaign during the Civil war and served as governor of New Jersey 1878-1881.
Who was George B. McClellan?
The Union's victory weakened the confederacy by splitting it in half and isolating several states including Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas.
What was the Vicksburg Campaign?
Went around and killed lots of people who owned slaves and very religious.
Who was John Brown?
Former Secretary of War and Senator of Mississippi who became the first and only President of the Confederate States from 1861-1865.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This statement by President Lincoln stated that all enslaved people are now free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Confederate spy in the Civil War. Provided lots of information to Stonewall Jackson in 1862.
Who was Belle Boyd?
It was a Union victory which provided Abraham Lincoln to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
Women's rights activist, she did her speech, Ain't I just a women, in 1851.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
Union General who defeated the Confederate Army of North Virginia led by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who was George Meade?
The Battle where Robert E. Lee surrendered in 1865 that marked the end of the Civil War.
What was the Appomattox Courthouse?