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 Army of Northern Virginia
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
A plan for Reconstruction was necessary because of this.
What is there was no Constitutional rule for states succeeding and being readmitted.
What were 2 southern advantages in the war?
Knew the land, strong military leaders; defending their own land; strong hunters;
Union General picked to lead the union troops during the final years of the war.
Ulysses S Grant
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?
This was the final destination for escaping slaves on the Underground Railroad.
What is Canada
These are some of the "parts" of the Missouri Compromise.
Maine would be a free state. Missouri would be a slave state. North of the 36' 30 line would be free.
This was where Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname
What is the battle of Bull Run?
Sherman's March to the Sea was focused on this.
What is civilian targets and resources (Total War)?
One of the Reconstruction Act amendments to the Constitution that abolished slavery in all states.
The 13th Amendment
Assassinated President Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
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.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
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.
Sharecropping