Vocab
A war between citizens of the same country.
Civil War
Battle of Fort Sumter
16th President of the United States. Nick-named Honest Abe
Abraham Lincoln
The North and the South strongly disagreed on this way of life.
Keep enslaved people
The Civil War lasted for how many years?
4 years
The act of changing a legal document.
Amendment
This union victory gave President Lincoln confident to reveal his Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Antietam
President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
Which state was the first of the 11 to secede?
South Carolina
Lincoln revealed this order that demanded enslaved people be given their freedom. And allowed African-Americans to fight in the union army.
Emancipation Proclamation
The period after the Civil War when the Southern states were reunited with the Union.
Reconstruction
This was the only battle fought on water and change the way the Navy built and used their ships.
Battle of Ironclads
A famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Why did southerners feel strongly to keep enslaved people?
They wanted extra help tending to their large planations.
Andrew Johnson and Congress worked together to rebuild the United States after the Civil War. What was this time period called?
Reconstruction
The act of two or more persons or states joining together for a common purpose.
Union
Occurred in July 1863. TheConferate was pushing through Pennsylvania but the Union was able to stop the Confederates in this city. A huge victory for the North.
Battle of Gettysburg
The general for the Confederate
Robert E. Lee
Southerners disagreed with the North about how much power the state's government vs the U.S. governments had. What were these rights called?
States rights
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
The 13th amendment
Those who fought to help end slaveryl
Abolitionist
The Union general led 100,000 to Atlanta, Georgia to destroy the Confederate's center for trade and supplies.
Sherman's March
Name a general for the Union
Possible correct answers: Meade, Grant, Sherman
The South was nervous that by electing this president that he would drastically change their way of living.
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to anyone born in the United States.
The 14th Amendment