Causes of the War
What effect did the acquisition of new territory during the mid-19th century have on the U.S.?
It increased sectional tension and distrust as debates emerged over slavery.
Who was president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What event marked the beginning of the Civil War?
The Battle of Fort Sumter
What was the bloodiest single-day battle of the war?
Antietam
What was a significant difference in men who helped during the war and women who helped during the war?
Women made less money
The territory acquired from Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo caused an agreement to be made on the land, what was its name?
The Compromise of 1850
This man was the most famous Confederate general.
Robert E. Lee
This state argued that they believed they would no longer be represented by the government elected in 1860.
South Carolina
What strategy is William T. Sherman best known for?
Total War
What was significant about the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
They were an all African American regiment
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was based on what principle?
Popular sovereignty
This party and President's platform in the 1860 election was to stop the expansion of slavery into new states and territories.
Republican, Lincoln
What was the name for the slaveholding states that stayed in the Union and were strategically important to Lincoln.
Border states
What turning-point battle in 1863 stopped Lee’s invasion of the North?
Gettysburg
This woman was a nurse during the Civil War who later founded the American Red Cross
This was a violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers over popular sovereignty in one certain state.
Bleeding Kansas
Who replaced McClellan as general and later accepted Lee’s surrender?
What was the Confederacy’s main advantage at the start of the war?
They were fighting on home territory
What Union victory gave control of the Mississippi River?
Vicksburg
What was the greatest cause of death among soldiers?
Disease
What 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled African Americans could not be citizens and struck down federal power to restrict slavery?
The Dred Scott Decision
Which Confederate general earned the nickname “Stonewall” at Bull Run?
This was the name of the Union's military plan to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi to strangle the Confederacy.
The Anaconda Plan
What event effectively ended the war in April 1865?
Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
This freed slaves in Confederate-held territory and made the war about ending slavery.
The Emancipation Proclamation