Civil War People
The President of the United States
Who is Lincoln
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?
Last Northern state to have enslaved people
New Jersey
What crop was the South most famous for growing?
Cotton
Commander of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
Fort sumter
This battle is considered the turning point of the war, is also the battle with the most overall casualties
Gettysburg
What state did the Battle of Gettysburg take place?
Pennsylvania
Free Space
Free Space
A prominent American abolitionist and social activist who escaped slavery and dedicated her life to freeing others. She was a key figure in the Underground Railroad, making multiple trips to guide enslaved people to freedom.
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 site of John Brown's raid on an arsenal in hopes of starting a slave revolution
Harper's Ferry Virginia
Factories, Farms, Nurses
Leading General of the Union Army.
Who is Ulysses s grant?
Name 6 Confederate states
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina
What years did the Civil War take place?
1861-1865
What border state was divided during the Civil War to create a new state?
Virginia
Bonus Trashketball: The idea that residents of a territory should decide whether to allow slavery
popular sovereignty
President Lincoln's main goal throughout the entire war was to
Preserve the Union, in other words keep the country together.
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?
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
Uncle Tom's Cabin