Civil War People
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.
Secede
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War
What was the battle of Gettysburg
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter? or Charleston, SC?
What were 2 Northern advantages in the war.
What are a larger population, more supplies/resources; industrialization, railroads?
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
What did both General Grant and President Lincoln want for the country after the end of the war?
Healing; forgiveness; one united country again
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
The start of Shermans March was here
What is Atlanta, GA
What were 2 southern advantages in the war?
Knew the land, strong military leaders; defending their own land; strong hunters;
This woman was one of the main conductors of the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
What part of the country (and specifically what state) were most Civil War battles fought?
The South/ Virginia
This was where President Lincoln was assassinated
Ford's Theatre
The laws passed in some of the South after the Civil War to limit the power of African Americans.
The abolitionist who attacked the Army's arsenal of guns at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
The purchase of this large piece of land helped spur arguments over whether new states would be free or slave states.
What is the Louisiana Purchase or the Northwest Territory
Maine would be a free state. Missouri would be a slave state. The Mason-Dixon line would be established.
This was where Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname
What is the battle of Bull Run?
Sherman's March to the Sea ended in this city
What is Savannah, GA?
One of the Reconstruction Act amendments to the Constitution that abolished slavery in all states.
The 13th Amendment
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
These are some of the events that led up to the Civil War.
the differences in geography and the different economies of the North/South; the issue over states' rights; the issue of slavery; the Missouri Compromise; Bleeding Kansas; John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry; the Election of 1860.
When violence broke out in Kansas over the issue of slavery - what nickname was Kansas given?
What is Bleeding Kansas
What method did General Grant use on Vicksburg to force them to surrender?
Siege
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
the name of the system in the South, after the Civil War ended, that kept African Americans poor and powerless, as they were trapped in a cycle of debt by renting land to farm.
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