Reformers and Reform Movements
An abolitionist who felt so strongly about ending slavery that he/she would help slaves run away might belong to what secret organization?
The Underground Railroad
South Carolina and ten other states began seceding from the Union when who was elected President of the U.S.?
Abraham Lincoln
What first major battle of the Civil War ended in a Northern loss, a chaotic retreat, and civilians clogging the roads?
The First Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
Who was well known for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation (freeing the South's slaves) and for giving the Gettysburg Address where he discussed America's "new birth of freedom"?
Abraham Lincoln
What Constitutional amendment, passed during the War, ended slavery in the U.S.?
The 13th
Who was a famous runaway slave who went on to write his autobiography, speak out publicly against the evils of slavery, and even met Lincoln?
Frederick Douglass
Why did fighting break out in "Bleeding Kansas" in the late 1850s?
People were fighting about slavery (Abolitionists and pro-slavery people had rushed there to vote on the issue of slavery)
What three day battle with 50,000 casualties was the largest of the war and a key Union victory?
(Battle of) Gettysburg
Who was the well known commander of the Confederate Army who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse?
Robert E. Lee
Who killed Abraham Lincoln near the end of the War? Where?
John Wilkes Booth; Ford's Theater
Besides women's reform and abolition, list any additional social reform movement we discussed.
Temperance, education reform, prison reform, education for the disabled, etc.
What are two ways John Brown showed his support for violent abolition?
Fighting/killing in Kansas and the raid at Harpers Ferry
What Union victory in Maryland was important because Maryland did not leave the Union and because Lincoln then issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
(Battle of) Antietam
How did Clara Barton serve during the Civil War?
Battlefield Nurse
Vicksburg
Which social reform movement used the convention at Seneca Falls as an opportunity to get organized?
Women's Rights
What was Dred Scott suing for in his Supreme Court case? What was the result?
His freedom; He was not granted his freedom/he lost (1. Living in a free state does not make you free, 2. African-Americans are not citizens of the U.S., 3. The Federal government cannot ban slavery or just take people's property)
The Confederacy tried to break the Union blockade with the C.S.S. Virginia. The Union fought back with the U.S.S. Monitor. What made this battle special?
The two ships were made of metal ("Clash of the Ironclads")
Name one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted Generals? One was shot by his own side in an accident...
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
James Longstreet
The North had a three point plan for victory. List one of those points.
1. Blockade the South/cut them off from outside trade
2. Capture the Confederate Capital at Richmond (Eastern Campaign)
3. Capture the Mississippi River/divide the South in two (Western Campaign)
What reformer personally investigated mental hospitals and prisons during the early 1800s then spoke out in favor of changing these places?
Dorothea Dix
Why did the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 make many Northerners so angry?
It made it a crime to help runaway slaves OR it allowed Southerners to come into the North to pursue/bring fugitives back.
Though not much of a "battle", the first shots of the Civil War were fired when the Confederacy attacked where?
Fort Sumter
Who are the two Union Generals who were first successful in the West together at the Battle of Shiloh? Later, one would command all Union Armies (and become President). The other would lead his Army through the South destroying anything of military value.
Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman
Where did Lee stop Grant's army and hold them through the end of 1864 until Spring of 1865?
Petersburg, VA (just south of Richmond)