People
Who was the man that is rumored to have fired the first shot of the Civil War?
Edmund Ruffin.
Who led an attack on Harper's Ferry Armory to get guns and ammo for the slaves to take up arms.
John Brown
The soldiers that fought for the Union where called?
Yankees
Where was the largest battle in the Civil War located?
Gettysburg, PA
What was someone called who wanted to end slavery?
Abolitionist
Who was the woman that made several trips back to the southern states to get slaves to the free north?
Harriet Tubman
This allowed southern slave owners to go into free states in order to retrieve escaped slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Law
The soldiers that fought for the Confederacy were called?
Rebels
Where were the first shots taken in the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
What year did the Civil War begin?
1861
Led a slave revolt that killed 60 slave owners and family members?
Nat Turner
Allowed California to become a state..
The Compromise of 1850
Who was the President of the United States (Union)?
Abe Lincoln
Where was the Capital of the Confederacy located
Richmond, VA
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Created the cotton gin..
Eli Whitney
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state; while Maine would become a free state.
Who was the General of the Army for the Confederacy?
Robert E. Lee
Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated?
a. Appomatox Court House
b Ford's Theater
c. Gettysburg
B
About how many lives were lost in the Civil War?
600-800,000
Who filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court to obtain the freedom of himself and his family
Dred Scott
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write about the conditions slaves endured?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was the General of the Union Army at the end of the War?
Ulysses Grant
Where was the furthest point north that the Confederacy attacked?
St. Albans, VT
What Proclamation Freed the slaves (sort of). It didn't free slaves in states that didn't secede. Just the states that left the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation