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.
What is Secede
Winner of the Presidential 1860 election
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first Civil War battle of Union and Confederate armies in Virginia.
What is Bull Run/ Manassas?
The compromise in 1820 added these two states to the Union, one as a slave state and the other as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name 2 Northern advantages in the war.
What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads?
Took full command of the South's Confederate Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
The name of the opposing armies during the Civil War.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
The 1787 compromise to settle the dispute over slavery and representation in the House of Representatives.
What is the 3/5ths Compromise?
What were 2 Southern advantages in the war?
What are knew the land, fought defensively, and better generals/military leaders?
African American unit with two of Frederick Douglass' sons.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
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?
Which battle in Pennsylvania ended the Confederate attempts to invade Northern lands.
What is Gettysburg?
John Brown raided a federal armory here in 1859 to start a rebellion to free the slaves.
What is Harper's Ferry, VA
The novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrays the evils of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The Union general who had command of the North's Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where?
What are states currently in rebellion, or the states that seceded?
She was known as the Angel of the Battlefield.
Who is Clara Barton?
The name of the two ironclad ships who fought to a stalemate?
What were the Merrimack and Monitor?
The capital of the Confederated States of America.
What is Richmond, VA
The Supreme Court case whose ruling included that the Compromise of 1850 was unconstitutional and that Black people (free or slave) could not be citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman?
The man assaulted with a cane in the US Senate.
Who is Charles Sumner?
Battle that gave North control of the Mississippi and divided the South.
What is Vicksburg
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
What is Appomattox, VA?
Name at least 2 of the border states (slave states that stayed in the Union).
What are Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, WV