Civil War People
President of the United States, wanted to preserve the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the Union.
What is to secede?
The first state to secede
What is South Carolina?
True or False: Very few battles took place in the state of Virginia.
What is False? Virginia saw several major battles including Bull Run, Chancelorsville, Petersburg, and the siege of Richmond.
capital of the Union was located here
What is Washington, D.C.?
2 Northern advantages in the war
What are a larger population, more supplies/resources; industrialization, railroads?
President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The first shots of the Civil War fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
True or False
The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the United States
What is False
It only abolished slavery in the Confederate states. (Slavery was not abolished till after the war in 1865 via the 13th amendment.)
The first shots of the war were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
capital of the Confederacy was located here
What is Richmond, Virginia?
this Civil War technology could shatter bones on impact
What is the mini-ball?
Commander of the Confederate army
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln's famous speech given in 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield and compared the war to the founding of freedom in the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War and the turning point.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Robert E. Lee was from this state
What is Virginia?
Name 1 of 2 southern advantages in the Civil War.
Military Leaders and Defense.
Commander of the Union army at the time of surrender
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These are states that remained loyal to the Union despite having slaves
What are Border States?
Years of the war
What are 1861-1865?
the Battle of Gettysburg took place in this state
What is Pennsylvania?
The idea that residents of a territory should decide whether to allow slavery
popular sovereignty
This General led a campaign of total warfare on his March to the Sea campaign
Who is General William T. Sherman?
Name at least 2 reasons for the Civil War
What are the issue of slavery, the Election of 1860, differences in economic makeup between North and South?
When violence broke out in Kansas over the issue of slavery - what nickname was Kansas given?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Robert E. Lee surrendered in this state
Where is Virginia?
2 ways the Emancipation Proclamation helped the Union and their military
1. Changed their goal from keeping the Union to fighting for freedom
2. African Americans joined the military