Causes of the Civil War
This novel, written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher, showed the evils of slavery to hundreds of thousands of people around the United States.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
a person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s
What is an Abolitionist?
This battle was a Union loss and made it clear to everyone that the war would not be ending anytime soon.
What is the Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction)?
This battle happened in Charleston Harbour in South Carolina and started the Civil War in 1861?
What is the Bombardment of Fort Sumter?
President of the Union
Who is Lincoln?
This person led a raid on Harper's Ferry to steal weapons from the federal armory to start a slave revolt.
Who is John Brown?
To leave, or formally withdraw membership in a group
What is secede?
This was the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Jan 1 1863, Lincoln signed this document freeing the slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This act gave territories the right to be a slave or free state and nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Emancipation
What is the act of setting someone or something free?
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The day that President Lincoln was assassinated.
What is April 14, 1865?
The imaginary line that made any state north of it a free state and any state south of it were slave states.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line
Impeach
What is to accuse a government official of doing something wrong or improper?
This person was one of hundreds of women who disguised themselves as men to fight in the Union army.
Who is Sarah Rosetta Wakeman?
In what year did the war begin? What year did it end?
1861. 1865.
This person assassinated President Lincoln in Ford's Theater
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Name 3 things that the South was worried about if Lincoln became president.
What are:
Ending of slavery.
Their way of life.
Losing their power in Congress.
This Civil War Amendment that gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This battle lasted for three days and caused Lee to vow to never try to invade the North again?
What is Gettysburg?
In March of 1863, this all-African American unit commanded by Colonel Robert G. Shaw, was formed.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
This Union General who marched from Atlanta to the coast and used "total war" to destroy the South.
Who is General Sherman?