The North
What were the Northern States referred to?
Free States
What were the Southern states referred to?
Slave States; Confederacy
Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
Kentucky
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Who was the escaped enslaved person who became a famous abolitionist and writer?
Frederick Douglass
Did George McClellan have success in his campaign?
No
Which slave state seceded from the United States?
South Carolina
Republican
Who lost the Battle of Bull Run?
The North/ Union
How many Americans died in the Civil War?
Approximately 750,000
What percentage of the Union Army was black?
10%
What was Robert E Lee's significant loss?
The death of Stonewall Jackson
Was Abraham Lincoln happy after the war?
No
What was the battle that declared the course of the War?
The Battle of Antietam
What was the network of people who worked together to help runaways from slaveholding states travel to states in the North, where slavery was illegal.
The Underground Railroad
Who was the General that was out West fighting in Kentucky and Tennessee, who eventually became Lincoln's Commanding General for the remainder of the War.
General Ulysses S. Grant
What part of Virginia broke off?
West Virginia
Who did Abraham Lincoln run against in the presidential election?
McClellan?!
What was the Battle in December of 1862?
Battle of Fredericksburg
What was issued on September 22nd?
This declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "...shall be free"
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the general that Lincoln thought would succeed?
General Burnside
Who was the President of the Confederacy (South)?
Jefferson Davis
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the largest battle in American history called?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What was the law that required authorities in Free States to help capture and return escaped enslaved people to their owners in the South?
Fugitive Slave Act