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The winner of the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The name of the new bullet that allowed for more accurate and longer range fighting to occur.
What is the Minié ball?
The president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The state Gettysburg is located in.
What is Pennsylvania?
This document freed all enslaved people in rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The main issue dividing the country in the 1800s.
What is slavery?
The Union's advantages that allowed for a larger army and more rapid production of weapons.
What is a larger population and more factores?
The lead general that won the war for the Union.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What is Antietam Creek?
This speech by President Lincoln memorialized the most important battle of the Civil War.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The compromise that made slavery illegal in the Louisiana territory above the 36 30 parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The Confederacy's advantages that caused the war in Northern Virginia to be more challenging and drawn out.
What are more skilled military leaders and fighting on their own territory?
The president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This final offensive move by the Confederacy during the Battle of Gettysburg turned out to be a complete failure and resulted in thousands of Confederate deaths.
What is Pickett's Charge?
The name of Lincoln's assassin.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The leader of the attack on Harpers' Ferry who is buried north of Glens Falls.
Who is John Brown?
These were used by both the Union and the Confederacy to spy on the enemy during battle.
What is a balloon (hot-air balloon)?
The lead general for the Confederacy.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The geographic advantage the Confederacy had during the Battle of Antietam.
What is artillery (cannons) on the ridge above the battlefield?
The amendment that was passed in 1865 to make slavery illegal.
What is the 13th amendment?
The type of economy of the North and the South.
What is industrial (North) and agricultural (South)?
This new technology allowed for greater espionage during the war and during ocean battles. The example shown in class was the USS Alligator.
What is a submarine?
The Union general who became famous for his March to the Sea.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
The name of the Union regiment that successfully defended against A.P. Hill's 1,300 troop brigade.
What is the 1st Minnesota?
One of the other targets during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Johnson, William Seward?