The Conflict Begins
The year the Civil War officially began.
1861
The man elected President of the United States in 1860.
Abe Lincoln
The first Southern state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
The South Carolina fort where the first shots of the war were fired.
Fort Sumner
This killed more men during the Civil War than actual bullets
Disease
The state where the Civil War started (specifically in Charleston).
South Carolina
The man who served as the military leader of the Confederacy.
Robert E Lee
The nickname of states between the north and south
Border states
The state where most of the battles happened leading up to the Emancipation proclamation
Virginia
What were the southern states called?
The confederacy
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write about slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Confederate General who earned the nickname "Stonewall" at Bull Run
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
The document stating that slaves in states "in rebellion" were "forever free."
Emancipation Proclamation
The city that served as the capital of the Confederacy in 1862
Richmond, VA
The Constitutional Amendment added after the war that officially freed slaves.
13th
The number of states that had already seceded by the time Lincoln took office.
7
The slave who famously sued for his freedom in a landmark Supreme Court case.
Dred Scott
The agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
The site of the bloodiest one-day battle in U.S. history, with 23,000 casualties.
The battle of Antietam
The founder of groups to help Union soldiers that later became the Red Cross.
Clara Barton
The total estimated number of lives lost during the American Civil War.
600,000
The man who raided a federal armory at Harper’s Ferry to start a slave revolt.
John Brown
Who did Abe Lincoln run against for President?
John C Breckenridge
The city David Farragut captured to gain control of the Mississippi River.
New Orleans
The percentage of military-aged Southern white men who joined the Confederate Army.
80%