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?
Zeus
True or false, the North and the South had different names for battles?
True
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
What year was FCCS founded?
2013
This was the biggest killer in the Civil War
Disease, specifically dysentary and diarrhea
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?
Two weeks
This man invented the Cotton Gin
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.
She was the Assistant Principal and then Acting Head of School
Mrs Taylor
Who did President Lincoln arrest to prevent Maryland from seceding?
The Maryland State Legislature
Name two border states
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky
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
This was the name of the Head of School after Dr Bell left
Max Fletcher
This man was Commander of the Union army at the start of the Civil War?
Winfield Scott
Fort Sumter was in what harbor
Charleston Harbor