Leaders and Generals
Robert E. Lee fought for which side of the Civil War?
Confederacy/South
Who was the victor at the First Battle of Bull Run?
Confederacy/South
The Emancipation Proclamation allowed African American Men to join the Union army and Navy. True or False?
True
Define 'Contestability'
Contestability in history refers to the idea that historical interpretations can be debated because different sources or historians may draw different conclusions from the same evidence.
Mr Turner described General Robert E. Lee as which popular US rapper?
Who is King Von?
This Confederate president served as the political leader of the South during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This 1863 battle is considered the turning point of the war and was followed by Lincoln’s famous address.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This law required citizens and authorities in free states to assist in returning escaped enslaved people to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This term refers to the withdrawal of Southern states from the Union beginning in 1860.
What is secession?
Charlie Scott avoided a debate with Mr Turner on this famous Abolitionist.
Who is John Brown?
This Union general eventually commanded all Union armies and later became the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River to suffocate the Confederate economy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This political party was formed in the 1850s largely in opposition to the expansion of slavery into new territories.
This 19th-century movement campaigned for the complete abolition of slavery in the United States, with supporters including figures like Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison.
What is Abolitionism?
Mr Turner described the argument for this reason of secession and the Civil War as complete poppycock, saying that the only right the Confederacy was pursuing was the right to own slaves.
What is the State's Rights argument?
This Union major commanded the federal garrison at Battle of Fort Sumter and surrendered the fort after Confederate bombardment in April 1861.
Who is Robert Anderson?
This surrender in April 1865 effectively ended the Civil War.
What is the Appomattox Court House?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while banning slavery north of latitude 36°30′ in the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This term describes an economy based primarily on agriculture and farming, which characterised much of the Southern United States before and during the American Civil War.
What is an agrarian economy?
Mr Turner said this Confederate General had one of the most 'bada$$' nicknames of all time.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
This Union general was removed from command by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862.
Who is George B. McClellan?
This failed Confederate assault on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg saw about 12,500 Confederate soldiers advance across open ground toward Union lines and became one of the most famous and costly attacks of the war.
What is Pickett's Charge?
This 1854 law allowed settlers in new territories to decide whether slavery would be allowed there.
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act?
This term describes the destructive strategy used by Sherman that targeted infrastructure, supplies and civilian resources to weaken the enemy. This term was also used to describe the involvement of the homefront during WW1.
What is 'total war'?
Mr Turner's favourite flavour of ice cream.
What is Mint Choc-Chip? mmmm