Vocabulary
Causes
Important People
Civil War 101
Battles
100
to cut off or block off an area
What is a blockade?
100
The election of this man angered the Southern slave states
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
16th President of the United States
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This many people died during the Civil War.
What is 620,000?
100
This is the single bloodiest day in US Military history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
What are border states?
200
The Nebraska territory was split into these two states.
What is Kansas and Nebraska?
200
Leader, or Conductor, or the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
Almost half of this side's population was slaves.
What is the South?
200
This quick battle marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
increase, or rise, in prices
What is inflation?
300
This admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
300
This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
Stonewall Jackson will killed by his own men in this battle.
What is Chancelorsville?
400
Northern money
What is greenback?
400
This case enraged the North.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
400
Leader of the Confederate Army of Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
It was a disadvantage for this side to fight an offensive war.
What is the North?
400
This battle was fought in Fairfax Virginia.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
500
The draft required men of this age to serve in the army
What is 18-35?
500
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
500
This Union general went on to become 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
Lee surrendered here.
What is Appomatox Court House?
500
This was the first battle that was fought on Northern territory.
What is the Battle of Antietam?