Battles

Question 1

Missouri Compromise

Answer 1

“Compromise of 1820” over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

Question 2

Dred Scott

Answer 2

A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights.

Question 3

Battle of Fort Sumter

Answer 3

First fired shots of the Civil War. Confederate Victory, fought in South Carolina.

Question 4

Battle of Bull run/Manassis

Answer 4

1861, 1st major battle, proved war was going to be long and costly

Question 5

Robert E. Lee

Answer 5

Commander of the Confederate Army

Question 6

Antiedum

Answer 6

Civil War battle in which the North succeeded in halting Lee’s Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

Question 7

Vicksburg

Answer 7

1863, Mississippi. Union win is overlapped by Gettysburg. Gained control of Mississippi river.

Question 8

Shiloh

Answer 8

Confederate forces suprised union troops & drove them across the Tennesee river; union got backup and won the battle but it was one of the most bloody battles in the civil war

Question 9

Gettysburg

Answer 9

Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North. Vicksburg was won the day before

Question 10

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 10

(1811-1896) American author, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Question 11

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 11

General of the Union Army

Question 12

Frederick Douglass

Answer 12

Escaped slave and great black abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action. Wanted slavery ended yesterday, hated Lincoln because he wanted to take his time.

Question 13

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 13

President who abolished slavery. Leader of the Union

Question 14

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 14

Issued by Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free

Question 15

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Answer 15

Five days after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, the president was killed by John Wilkes Booth sending the nation into turmoil at the close of the Civil War. The first presidential assassination in US history. April 1865