People
The first Republican president was....
Abraham Lincoln
The United States Civil War began when the Confederacy attacked...
Fort Sumter
The President of the Confederacy was...
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
Invented the cotton gin...
Eli Whitney
It would take Lincoln awhile before he found this man to lead the Union Armies...
Ulyssess S. Grant
At this battle, Confederates rained down fire on the Union armies from a hilltop outside of town, picking up a key victory in the war...
Fredericksburg
Talented general from Virgina who led the Confederate armies...
Robert E. Lee
The Emancipation Proclamation declared...
All slaves within the Confederacy to be free.
A network of routes and safe houses slaves used to escape...
The Underground Railroad
Robert E. Lee's first loyalty was to his home state of...
Virginia
Lee's defeat here marked the end of his invasion of the North...
Gettysburg
General Thomas Jackson earned this nickname after the Battle of Bull Run...
Stonewall
The southern leaders thought it was necessary to secede in order to...
Preserve slavery
Escaped slave who made 19 journeys into the South to help hundreds of slaves escape...
Harriet Tubman
He marched from Atlanta to Savannah destroying the Confederate economy...
William Tecumseh Sherman
At this battle, people from Washington, DC came out to watch on blankets like it was a picnic...
Manassas
He was accidentally shot dead by his own men...
Stonewall Jackson
The Confederacy tried to make an alliance with this country...
Great Britain
The leader of Texas's rebellion against Mexico was...
Sam Houston
He was relieved of his command by Lincoln after his defeat at Fredericksburg...
Ambrose Burnside
The capture of this city on the Mississippi cut the Confederacy in two...
Vicksburg
This general led the fated charge to the ridge at Gettysburg...
George Pickett
Gatherings where state and local leaders of the South debated whether they should secede...
Secession conventions
The 7th president of the United States...
Andrew Jackson