Key MN People
The President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Secede
What is to withdraw from an organization or country?
Charley’s training experience and age when he enlisted.
Who was 15 years old when he enlisted and traveled by steamboat to Fort Snelling, trained for 2 months, and then left for Washington DC to fight in the Civil War?
An order issued by President Lincoln in 1863 announcing that enslaved people in the rebelling Confederate states were free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
An adventurous boy from Winona, MN who swam across the Mississippi River when he was 12.
Who is Charley Goddard?
The Confederacy
What is, the 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War. Also called the Confederate States of America?
Charley’s first experience with battle.
What was the bloodiest day in the nations history, the Battle of Antietam. 26,000 men were killed or wounded.
How the goals of the Civil War changed after the Emancipation Proclamation.
What are, the soldiers of the North were now fighting to hold the US together AND also to free enslaved people. Also, many slaves wanted to escape and head north.
An enslaved married couple who met in Fort Snelling who brought a lawsuit for their freedom that went all the way up to the Supreme Court but then lost.
Who are Dred & Harriet Scott?
The Union
What is the United States of America, often in reference to the Northern states during the Civil War?
Charley’s experience at Gettysburg.
What was a 3 day battle where the First MN Regiment played a big role in the victory and Charley was seriously wounded?
Change to the US Constitution that outlawed slavery, it could no longer exist in any state or territory of the US.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A female slave who was freed when her owners took her to St. Anthony, MN on vacation which was a free state.
Who was Eliza Winston?
Amendment
What is a change to a government process or document?
Charley’s fate after he was wounded.
What is Charley recovered from his injuries, fought in a few more battles and returned home to Winona when his term of enlistment ended?
3 Impacts of the Civil War.
What is 1. More than 600,000 lives were lost 2. Many parts of the south were in ruins 3. Slavery ended?
Man who brought a large group of enslaved people to MN and established the St. Paul’s first African American congregation that still exists today.
Who was Robert Hickman?
Abolitionist
What is, someone who wants to end slavery?
How Charley died.
What is, Charley died after an illness 4 years after the war ended, he was 23.
The main factors that caused the Civil War.
What are the North thought that slavery was immoral but the South believed it was an economic necessity to their way of life. And the South thought that Abraham Lincoln’s presidential victory meant the end of the Southern way of life so they seceded.