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?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War
What was the battle of Gettysburg
The first shots of the war were fired here
What is Fort Sumter? or Charleston, SC?
What were 2 Northern advantages in the war.
What are population, technology, industrialization, railroads?
Turned down the job from the Union Army to take full command of the 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?
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
The start of Shermans March was here
What is Atlanta, GA
What were 2 southern advantages in the war?
Homefield advantage, only had to keep fighting, better military leaders.
This woman was one of the main conductor's of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
John Wilkes Booth is known for what event towards the end of the Civil War.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
This battle was won by siege.
What is the battle of Vicksburg
This was where President Lincoln was assassinated
Ford's Theatre
This was military order given by Lincoln that freed enslaved people in the South.
Emancipation Proclamation
The Union general nicknamed "Unconditional Surrender" who accepted the surrender from confederate General Lee.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where?
What are states currently in rebellion?
By July of 1861, how many states were part of the Confederacy just prior to the first battle?
11
This was where the Union gained control of the Mississippi River.
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
Sherman's March to the Sea ended in this city
What is Savannah, GA?
What was a limitation of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Did not free enslaved people in the Border States, did not control the land of the South so could not free people there.
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman?
This was Lincoln's motive behind the Emancipation Proclamation.
To encourage freed black, slaves from the south to support the Union.
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African-American to do in the war.
What is fight for the Union army?
This is where Sherman waged "total war" against the South in Georgia.
What is Sherman's March?
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
Name two ways the government try to stop the war from happening.
Compromise of 1820, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act