Generals/Leaders
The confederacy's main general who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse.
Robert E. Lee
Where the first shots were fired to start the civil war.
Fort Sumter
The Supreme Court ruled against this case in which a slave sued his owners to receive freedom.
Dred Scott
Union spy - master of disguise she disguised herself as a man so that she could serve in the union Army
Sarah Emma Edmonds
The South won its first victory here. The battle was also known as the battle of Manassas?
Battle of Bull Run
A person who opposed slavery and wanted to end it immediately.
abolitionist
Union General trusted by Lincoln.
Ulysses S. Grant
Lee took his troops to Pennsylvania in June 1863.
Three day battle was turning point for civil war.
Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, starting the...
Civil War
President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
September 1862 after the battle of ____________. Over 23,000 men were killed. The union forced the Confederates back into Virginia.
The Battle of Antietam
After the election of 1860, many states chose to __________ from the Union.
secede
Northern Democrat who ran for president in 1860 and was for keeping slavery in the states that wanted it.
Stephen Douglas
September 22, 1862 President Lincoln made the _________________. Lincoln warned Southern states that most southern slaves would be free forever if "rebellious states" did not rejoin the Union by January.
Emancipation Proclamation.
The first state to leave the Union was...
south carolina