Civil War 1
Who is President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
Free states
The North
What is an abolitionist?
A person who is against slavery
The phrase "blue and gray" refers to what?
Soldiers uniforms
Slave states
The South
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped slaves escape to freedom.
What side of the civil war called themselves the Union?
The Northern states that were still apart of the United States
To find soldiers
That it was morally and socially wrong.
How many years did the Civil War last?
What happened to the President of the North at the end of the civil war?
He was assasinated
The greatest cause of death for Civil War soldiers.
What is disease.
Which group did the Emancipation Proclamation directly affect?
Who are slaves
Which states were called the Confederacy?
The Southern states that seceded from the United States
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Declared that slaves in the confederate states were free
The Civil War began in 1861 when Confederate Troops attacked?
What is Fort Sumter.
What was one major reason the Southern States seceded?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860...thought it was a threat to slavery and their economy.
Who was John Brown?
An abolitionist who tried to start a rebellion of enslaved people at Harpers Ferry.
What was the goal of the Missouri Compromise?
To keep number of slave and free states equal.
The Battle at Antietam led to the?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the main cause of the Civil War
slavery
What marked the beginning of the civil war?
the attack on Fort Sumter
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book about the horrors of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
A civil war is fought between who?
People from the same country
Who was Dred Scott?
A slave that sued for his freedom. Lost...was told he wasn't a citizen...just property.
The turning point of the Civil War was?
What is the battle of Gettysburg.
What were some of the advantages of the Union?
Abundant natural resources and manufacturing, more people, railroads, etc...
Years of the Civil War
What is 1861-1865
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Commander of the Confederacy Army
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Commander of the Union Army.