Civil War Leaders
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
What is secede?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secede?
The first battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
This side had the most railroads, people, and factories
What is the North or Union?
Eli Whitney invented this machine in 1793 that changed the economy of the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This Confederate general surrendered to a union general at Appomattox Court House in his home state of Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Group of people opposed to slavery
Who were abolitionists?
This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
This side was fighting to keep the country whole and to abolish slavery.
What is the North or the Union?
A large farm in the South that specialized in growing one valuable crop.
What is a plantation?
Nickname of the Confederate general who instructed his men to "yell like furies" and thus began the feared rebel yell that terrified Union soldiers.
Who is General Stonewall Jackson?
Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, John Brown, and Frederick Douglass
Who are famous abolitionists?
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The two states the regiments that fought at Little Round Top were from.
What is Maine and Alabama? (Twentieth Maine and Fifteenth Alabama)
This side had the strongest soldiers and more experienced military generals
What is the South or Confederacy?
She escaped from slavery and helped 300 other slaves escape.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Union general nicknamed "unconditional surrender _______"
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
They were considered property on the plantations and could be sold or separated from their families at any time.
Who were slaves in the South?
This man started "Bleeding Kansas" when he brutally murdered 5 pro slavery men.
Who is John Brown?
This battle was watched as sport by picnickers.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This side was fighting for states' rights and their traditional way of life.
What the South or Confederacy?
He protested against segregated seating on trains, founded an antislavery newspaper called the North Star, and his home was a station in the Underground Railroad.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
President of the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A secret route that consisted of a network of stations used to help slaves escape to Northern states or Canada.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This man assassinated the president of the United States of America just days after the end of the Civil War.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
This general led the March to the Sea which destroyed the state of Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah.
Who is William T. Sherman?
Most of the battles took place here
What is the South or Confederacy?
This became the slogan for the Southern economy.
What is Cotton is King?