Important People
This president of the United States is nicknamed the Great Emancipator.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Union law freed slaves in Confederate territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The site of two important battles in the Civil War, including the first real battle.
What is Bull Run/Manassas?
This nickname for Northerners continues to be used today.
What is Yankee?
Which side was trying to get financial support from Britain and France? Why?
The Confederacy.
Name two generals who led the Union Army.
Who are George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant?
This compromise allowed slaves to be counted in the census without giving them political rights.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
What is Vicksburg?
This term refers to allowing people to choose leaders or make important decisions through voting.
What is popular sovereignty?
Why was Texas important to the Civil War?
Texas was a large state and wanted to enter the Union as a slave state, upsetting the fragile balance created in the various compromises of slave and free states.
This Mississippi senator became president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Name the three main components of the Missouri Compromise.
What are Missouri became a slave state, Maine became a free state and slavery was banned above 36 degrees 30 minutes north in Louisiana Purchase territory?
This was one of the only major battles fought in Union territory.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Abolitionist John Brown famously attacked this type of installation.
What is an arsenal?
Why was 1863 a particularly important year in the Civil War?
This was the year of some important Union victories, such as at Gettysburg. It was the year that Lincoln imposed a massive Union draft and the New York Draft Riots exploded, and the year the president released the Emancipation Proclamation.
She is the best-known conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Name five components of the Compromise of 1850.
What are California was a free state, the New Mexico Territory would have no slavery restrictions, the New Mexico-Texas border argument would settle in favor of New Mexico, trading and selling slaves would be abolished in the District of Columbia, and a stronger fugitive slave law?
This is the most famous example of the tactic of "total war."
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This process is used to add constitutional amendments.
What is ratification?
About how many people died from each side?
Approx. 365,000 in the Union and 258,000 in the Confederacy.
This debate opponent of Lincoln's and famed abolitionist share a last name.
Who are Stephen Douglas and Frederick Douglass?
Explain the importance of the Dred Scott decision.
What is, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott had no legal right to sue since he was a slave, that slaves could not become free by going to states without slavery since they were property of their owners and that the federal government could not make laws limiting slavery in any states?
This famous action occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg.
What is Pickett's Charge?
Southern states used this as a justification for seceding.
What are states' rights?
What was the order of secession?
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee