Causes of the Civil War
The author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
People who didn’t believe in slavery and wanted to end it were called ________________.
What are abolitionists?
The President of the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first battle that began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This state is where the Battle of Gettsyburg was fought.
What is Pennsylvania?
This man led the raid at Harper’s Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves.
What is Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin?
The major Union General.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What battle was considered the “turning point” of the war?
Gettysburg, PA
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
Northern; Southern
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. Lincoln belonged to this political party.
Republican party.
The 13th ___________________ to the Constitution abolished slavery.
What is an amendment?
The two major Confederate Generals.
Who are Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
What was the bloodiest single day battle in the Civil War?
Antietam
The abbreviation of the state the seceded FIRST.
SC = South Carolina
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
A large farm where crops were planted in the South.
What is a plantation?
The title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
Roughly this many people died in the Civil War:
25,000-50,000
600,000-800,000
or 2 million
600,000-800,000 died during the Civil War.
This compromise aimed to keep a balance between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This law or act gave Southern slave owners legal right and weapons to capture escaped slaves in the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Who was Harriet Tubman and how did she contribute to the Civil War?
She was an escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad
Lincoln's death was by...
What is assassination?
One of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Along what river was the South split in two?
The Mississippi