Compromises
What two states were involved in the Missouri Compromise
What is Missouri and Maine
The president of the U.S.
The president of the South
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Who was Jefferson Davis
Generally speaking, the Southern economy was largely based on this.
agriculture?
Winner of the Battle of Bull Run
Confederacy
What year did the Civil War begin?
When did the Civil War end?
1861
ended May 13, 1865
Capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA
What act stated that all Northerners had to help catch runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
South's greatest general during the Civil
Robert E Lee
Generally speaking, the Northern economy was largely based on this.
industry
Sherman marched through this the state of Georgia and burned this city to the ground
What is Atlanta
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who is President Lincoln
The first battle of The Civil War was fought here on April 12, 1861
Fort Sumter
What degree of latitude represented the Mason-Dixon Line, a border between the North and South that became a breeding ground of contention between two Civil War powers?
What is 36° 30 North
General of the Union from 1861-1865
Ulysses S. Grant
A part of the Northern Plan that prevented the Confederacy from trading.
What is Blockade
What battle in the Civil War had the most casualties in one day?
What was the first Bloody battle of the Civil War?
Battle of Shiloh had most casualties in a day
What is Battle of Gettysburg
The Union's famous ironclad vessel with iron plates covering it
The South's famous ironclad vessel with iron plates covering it
What is the Monitor
What is the Merrimack or the Virginia
Name given to states not part of either North or South
How many were there?
What is five
What is Border States
five border states
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act say about the issue of slavery?
What is the settlers in those territories will decide the issue of slavery
This Union general was fired by Abraham Lincoln because he hesitated to pursue the Confederate Army at the Battle of Antietam.
General McClellan
A person who wanted to end slavery
an abolitionist?
His plan of "total war" played out when he burned Atlanta and destroyed everything in his path to Savannah.
Who is General William T. Sherman?
What book discussed the travesties and hardships of slavery and the Author
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
Grant and Lee arranged the surrender of Confederate forces at
What is Appomattox Court House
The idea that residents could vote on a territory to be slave/non slave
popular sovereignty
What individual was denied a Supreme Court case because he was black and had no rights
Who is Dred Scott
Loyalty to one part of the country.
Sectionalism
Which three battles were needed to secure the Mississippi River for the Union
New Orleans
Memphis
Vicksburg
What was the North called during the Civil War
What is the Union
This battle allowed the Union army to gain control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
Pro Slavery, and Anti Slavery groups tried to kill each other in the territories. This became known as:
Bleeding Kansas
This famous general of the Civil War died from friendly fire.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
This is when a portion of a country withdraws to form its own country.
secession?
Where did the Battle of Shiloh take place at?
Southwestern Tennessee
How long did the Civil war last?
4 years
4 years
What state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Result of the Compromise of 1850 in regards to California
California was admitted to the Union as a free state?
Group who was the most angry about the election of Abraham Lincoln
Southern slave owners
The selection of people to serve in the army whether or not they wished to serve
the draft?
General George McClellan found this before the Battle of Antietam giving him and his army a great advantage.
What are Lee's battle plans
The turning point in the Civil War
What was the battle at Gettysburg?
Where was Abraham Lincoln assassinated
This man was responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
The Ford Theatre
John Wilkes Booth?