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 battle of the Civil War
What was the battle of Antietam
What were 2 Northern advantages in the war.
What are a larger population, more supplies/resources; industrialization, railroads?
commander of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
Union military plan that involved capturing the Mississippi River and surrounding the Confederacy
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote what book?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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?
The battle that involved capture of the Mississippi river and cut the south in two
What is Battle of Vicksburg?
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?
the growing divide between two or more regions of a country
What is Sectionalism ?
Years of the war
1861-1865
What was significant about the battle of Antietam?
-it was significant because Lee’s invasion of the North was halted.
OR
-The battle gave President Abraham Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which shifted the war’s focus to ending slavery
First AND second turning point of the war
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
Union General most famously known for his "total war" strategy
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Name at least 2 reasons for 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
First African American to win the Congressional Medal of Honor
Who is William Carney?
reason WHY Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation
give north motivation AND the hurt the south's crops