Causes of
This was the only main cause of the Civil War
Slavery
This statement declared all slaves free in the South during the Civil War.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This fort was fired on by the Confederacy and started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This person was President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This side of the Civil War had more resources- population, railroads, farms, exports and manufactured goods.
The Union
This was "king" and the main money maker in the South.
Cotton
This was a network of escape routes used to free enslaved people.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This three day battle caused the most deaths of any battle in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
This violent man was a big opponent of Slavery, and tried to raid Harper's Ferry to arm a slave revolt.
John Brown
This man shot and killed Abraham Lincoln after the Civil War
John Wilkes Booth
What is the term for exaggerated loyalty to a portion of the country?
Sectionalism
According to this, a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitive slaves in escaping or hiding them? This made Northerners very mad.
The Fugitive Slave Act
Not really a battle but a conflict, this was the first territory to shed blood over slavery after popular sovereignty was declared, and got the nickname "Bleeding _____________?"
Kansas
Because of his impressive victories, Lincoln made this man commander of all Union Armies.
Ulysses S. Grant
This is what it was called when the Southern States left the Union.
Secession
This was a plan to prohibit slavery north of the 36*30' N Latitude line.
The Missouri Compromise
This person sued for his freedom because he lived in a free state before returning to a slave state.
Dred Scott
What is the opening line of Abraham Lincoln's famous speech after the battle of Gettysburg?
- The Gettysburg Address
This man was the leader in charge of the Confederate Army.
Robert E. Lee
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This 'cause' of the Civil War was created by southerners after the end of the Civil War
States rights
A former slave, who was an abolitionist leader against slavery.
Frederick Douglass
This person is famous for his "March to the Sea."
William Tecumseh Sherman
This man was a proponent of slavery, who debated Abraham Lincoln heavily prior to Lincoln's presidency.
Stephen A Douglass
Who did the South try to rely on for trade once the Civil War began?
France and Britain