Civil War 1
Who is President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
Which side of the Civil War were called the Confederacy?
The Southern states that seceded from the United States
When a nation fights itself it is called?
a civil war
What marked the beginning of the civil war?
the attack on Fort Sumter
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
Confederacy General
What was the Underground Railroad?
A series of secret passages in which runaway slaves were led through in order to gain freedom in the North
What was the capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped slaves escape to freedom.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Declared that slaves in the confederate states were free
Someone who leads groups of runaway slaves to the North.
What happened to the President of the North at the end of the civil war?
He was assasinated
What was the deadliest single day of battle in the Civil War and in American history? And who won?
Antitam; the Union won but still had a lot of casualties
What is popular sovereignty?
Letting the people vote on certain government actions.
What side of the civil war called themselves the Union?
The Northern states that were still apart of the United States
The act that restricted aiding runaway slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
Which was the first of the Southern States to secede?
South Carolina
This is what freed slaves in the confederate states only and gave more man power to the union.
The Emancipation Proclamation
What is an abolitionist?
A person who wants slaves to be freed.
What word means "a loose union of independent states"?
confederacy
What happened in the Dred Scott vs Sanford case?
The supreme court decided that all black people were unable to be US citizens and couldn't defend themselves in court.
Who gave the Gettysburg address and what was the purpose?
President Abraham Lincoln and to dedicate the battlefield to those killed there and to energize America that we needed to continue to fight for equality.
What does secede mean?
to break away from, to remove oneselve
After which state joined the union did the Fugitive Slave Act get passed?
California.
What is John Brown known for?
Trying to start a slave rebellion after stealing weapons from an armory in VA and taking hostages. He was sentence to death.
Who became President after Lincoln was assassinated?
His Vice President, Andrew Johnson
What were 3 new weapons/technology introduced in the Civil War?
Minie Ball Bullets
Repeating Rifles
Telegraph
Submarines
Ironclad ships
This term means "someone who is running away, or escaping".
fugitive
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A Mississippi senator that became the President of the Confederacy
What were 2 advantages of the Union going into the war?
More factories/industrialized
Higher population-soliders and workers
More railroads ran through the north
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The woman who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" describing the cruelties of slavery.
What was the reason the Southern States seceded?
preserve their way of life; slavery
What is the difference between the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment?
13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States
Proclamation only freed slaves from confederate states since the confederacy deemed them "property"
Who won the battle of Bull Run?
The confederacy.
This term describes a large farm that specializes in the production of one or two cash crops for sale..
plantation
This event took place when pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces clashed in Kansas, fighting to determine if Kansas would be a free state or a slave state.
Bleeding Kansas
Where did the Confederate Army Surrender?
Appomattox Court House
Why was the outcome of the Battle of Bull Run surprising to Northerners?
They realized that the war could be long and difficult
What state is Gettysburg in?
Pennsylvania
After the Civil War, enslaved people became free when slavery was abolished by the
13th amendment
The unions strategy of forcing a surrender by cutting off supply lines to the South.
What were 2 advantages of the Confederacy going into the war?
Fighting on home land advantage
More military schools
On the defensive side