Causes of the Civil War
What was the battle that lasted for three days and caused Lee to vow to never try to invade the North again?
What is Gettysburg?
What battle happened in Charleston Harbour in South Carolina and started the Civil War in 1861?
Fort Sumter.
John Brown.
An amendment that said anyone born or naturalized in the United States is a citizen, even if they had once been a slave.
14th Amendment
Bloodiest Battle of the War with Northern leaders saying it was a Union victory but soldiers on the battlefield said no one won.
Battle of Antietam
This act gave territories the right to be a slave or free state and nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the definition of emancipation?
Set free
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
Appomattox Courthouse?
When was President Lincoln assassinated?
April 14, 1865
What was the name of the imaginary line that made any state north of it a free state and any state south of it were slave states?
The Mason-Dixon Line
This Amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
15th Amendment.
Who was the spy that sent information to General Lee about the Union marching to Manasas Junction?
Rose Greenhow
After this battle President Lincoln gave this speech that abolished slavery in the Southern states that were rebelling against the Union in 1863.
The Battle of Antietam. The Emancipation Proclamation
Who assassinated President Lincoln and where did it happen?
John Wilkes Booth. Ford's Theater.
Name 3 things that the South was worried about if Lincoln became president.
Ending of slavery.
Their way of life.
Losing their power in Congress.
This is what the Southern States called themselves when they seceded from the Union
The Confederate States of America (CSA).
This battle was a Union loss and made President that the war would not be ending anytime soon.
The Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction).
In what year did the war begin? What year did it end?
1861. 1865.
The Union General who marched to Atlanta, Georgia and used total war to destroy the South on his march.
General Sherman