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
first state to secede
What is South Carolina?
The bloodiest single day of the Civil War
What was the Battle of Antietam?
Where the first shots of the war were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
Name of the North's war strategy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
commander of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
People opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
Lincoln's Plan for the war
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
Sherman's war ideology
What is Total War?
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
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?
first major victory for the Confederacy
What is Bull Run?
This was where President Lincoln was assassinated
Ford's Theatre
Lincoln's original plan in regards to slavery
to keep it from spreading
The abolitionist who attacked the Army's arsenal of guns at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
Having more love for your region of a country than the country as a whole.
What is Sectionalism ?
Years of the war
1861-1865
This was where Stonewall Jackson earned his nickname
What is the battle of Bull Run?
First African American to win the Congressional Medal of Honor
Who is William Carney?
First AND second turning points of the war
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
Union General, most famously known as the first modern general.
Who is William T. Sherman?
Name the main reason for the Civil War.
What is slavery?
When violence broke out in Kansas over the issue of slavery - what nickname was Kansas given?
What is Bleeding Kansas
Battle where the Union took control of the Mississippi River
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
From what city did Sherman start his march to the sea?
Where is Atlanta, GA?
The reason why Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is to motivate northern soldiers and empower slaves to walk off the plantation?