Military Leaders
This admiral was especially creative when it came to sneaking his boat past the enemy (he used trees, mud, and chains)!
Who was David Farragut?
This man won the election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This compromise had five main parts, one of which was that California would come into the Union as a free state and another which enacted a stronger fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" this nurse helped begin the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Confederate gunfire upon this fort in 1861 marked the official beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The UNION general who was good at training soldiers but not so good at winning battles.
Who was George B. McClellan
This man was the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The idea that political power belongs to the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
These people had just escaped slavery and made their way to Union armies in an attempt to become free.
<Hint> It is not Mrs. Kunz dancing!
Who are Contrabands?
The northern defeat in this battle, the first major battle of the Civil War, crushed the Union's hope of winning the war quickly.
What is First Battle of Bull Run?
This southern general originally hails from Virginia and turned down Lincoln's offer to head the Union army in order to fight for his home state.
This man won the Illinois Senate seat after beating Abraham Lincoln in that's states election.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
As our constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment it translates to "show the body."
What is Habeas Corpus?
Known for his murder of pro-slavery families in Kansas during the Pottawatomie Massacre this man was finally hanged for his crimes after conducting the raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This battle gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union and involved a siege that lasted around six weeks.
What is Vicksburg?
This Confederate general lost half of his troops within fifty minutes during this ill fated attack at Gettysburg.
Who is George Pickett?
This powerful senator from Massachusetts was very anti-slavery. He even ended up being violently beaten on the senate floor!
Who is Charles Sumner?
That slaves were helping with the war effort was the reason Abraham Lincoln gave for issuing this proclamation.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This woman wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This battle finally gave the North a much needed win.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This was the commander in chief of the military forces during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
This man came up with the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
These debates between two men running for senator of Illinois ended up making a national name for Abraham Lincoln.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
This group of people disagreed with the war and sympathized with the south. As a result they were given this reptilian nickname.
Who are the Copperheads?
This battle was originally intended as an ambush but the Union still won the day giving Unconditional Surrender Grant a victory and more control over the Mississippi valley.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?