Civil War People
Led a revolt against slavery in Virginia
Who is Nat Turner?
The trail that Harriet Tubman led slaves into the Union States
The Confederacy tried taking over this Union fort
What is Fort Sumter?
What was the North had an industrialized economy and the South had an agricultural economy?
A ship that is covered in iron plates
What is an Ironclad Ship?
What were 2 Northern advantages in the war.
What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads?
He was elected president of the US in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What did John Brown do at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
He led a raid on the United States Armory trying to start a slave rebellion.
This general surrendered his army in 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse
What is the Confederate General Robert E. Lee?
The Northern states wanted new states to be ______ states
A person who wants to stop slavery
What is an Abolitionist?
This describes the best role of white Virginians during the Civil War
Most supported the Confederacy
This woman was one of the main conductor's of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
What happened after Abraham Lincoln was declared president of the United States in 1860?
Some southern states seceded or broke away from the Union States, and created the Confederate States
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the battle of Bull Run?
Southern states relied on ______ for their agricultural economy
What is slave labor?
Enemy ships that are preventing entrance to a part, harbor, or city by blocking the way
What is a Blockade?
Served as Commanding General of the United States (Union) Army
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia (Confederacy)
Who is Robert E. Lee?
What was the law that allowed people to capture enslaved African Americans who had escaped?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Which battle Abraham Lincoln used the Union Navy to blockade southern ports?
Northern states and Southern states had cultural, economic, and constitutional differences based in ______?
What is slavery?
Differences between the two regions led to the creation of this new state
What is West Virginia?
Led a raid on the United States Armory of Harpers Ferry
Who is John Brown?
Why did conflict grow between the eastern and western parts of Virginia?
General Ulysses S. Grant captured and destroyed this Virginia City
What is Richmond?
Many _________ did not take sides during the Civil War
Who are the Native Americans?
To formally leave a political union
What is Secede?
She worked as a Civil War nurse and this led to the creation of the American Red Cross
Who is Clara Barton?