Civil War

Question 1

Slave State

Answer 1

A state witch that allows slavery.

Question 2

Free state

Answer 2

A state witch does not allow slavery

Question 3

The Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 3

Issued by President Lincoln in 1862. It was created to free all the slaves in slave states only.

Question 4

Missouri comprimise

Answer 4

Under this plan Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. It also said that no state above the 36’ 30’ line could be slave states

Question 5

Abolitionists

Answer 5

Americans that want to abolish,or end slavery.

Question 6

Dred Scott Case

Answer 6

A slave sued for his freedom, but he lost. The judge ruled that slaves were property. Also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

Question 7

Battle of Antietam

Answer 7

This battle is known as the “Bloodest Day.”

Question 8

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 8

Legislation that allowed the people of the Kansas and Nebraska territories to choose to have slavery in their territory or not.

Question 9

1st Battle of Bull Run

Answer 9

Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson gets his nickname in this battle. The Confederacy gets an early victory and a boost of confidence in this battle. Picnickers watched in horror.

Question 10

Secede

Answer 10

to withdraw

Question 11

Anaconda Plan

Answer 11

The North’s strategy to win the war. It was founded by General Winfield Scott.

Question 12

agriculture and slavery

Answer 12

what the Southern economy was based on

Question 13

Factories and industries

Answer 13

What the Northern economy was based on

Question 14

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 14

Bloodiest battle of the Civil War. It is also considered the turning point the war.

Question 15

Firing on Fort Sumter

Answer 15

Started the Civil War. It was the first battle of the Civil War.

Question 16

1861-1865

Answer 16

When was the Civil War fought?

Question 17

Ulysses Grant

Answer 17

One of the many Generals chosen by Lincoln to lead Union forces in the war

Question 18

Robert E. Lee

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The leader of the Confederate army

Question 19

California

Answer 19

The Compromise of 1850 admitted this state without slavery.

Question 20

Battle of Antietam

Answer 20

The bloodiest Civil War battle in a single day.

Question 21

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 21

A special order by President Lincoln on January 1st, 1863 declaring slaves in Confederate states were free

Question 22

Battle of Vicksburg

Answer 22

What was the second turning point of the Civil War?

Question 23

Thomas Stonewall Jackson

Answer 23

fought in the 1st Battle of Bull Run; got his nickname because he encouraged his men to stand firm like a stonewall; was shot at the Battle of Chancellorsville by his own men

Question 24

Abraham Lincoln

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President of the Union during the Civil War. He opposed the expansion of slavery. He thought slavery was immoral.

Question 25

Jefferson Davis

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President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Question 26

Gettysburg Address

Answer 26

Speech given by Abraham Lincoln at a memorial for Union soldiers that died at the Battle of Gettysburg

Question 27

sectionalism

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Showing extreme loyalty to a certain section of the country

Question 28

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 28

the place where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant

Question 29

states' rights

Answer 29

the belief that individual states can limit the power of the federal government; states believe that they have the right to refuse to follow the law if it is unconstitutional (unfair)

Question 30

nullify

Answer 30

void or refuse to do something

Question 31

they thought he would end slavery

Answer 31

Southern states began to secede from the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the U.S. Why did they begin to secede?

Question 32

he disagreed with it and said it was illegal

Answer 32

How did Lincoln feel about secession?

Question 33

South Carolina

Answer 33

Which state was the first state to secede from the Union?

Question 34

south

Answer 34

Where were most of the battles of the Civil War fought?

Question 35

North

Answer 35

Where were most of the railroads (north or south)?

Question 36

March to the Sea

Answer 36

What is the name of the event where William T. Sherman burned down the city of Atlanta.

Question 37

Union

Answer 37

Which side won the Civil War?

Question 38

1865

Answer 38

When did the Civil War end?

Question 39

1861

Answer 39

When did the Civil War begin?

Question 40

African Americans are property and slavery can go into all U.S. territories.

Answer 40

What did the Dred Scott decision rule?

Question 41

Popular Sovereignty where people can choose to have slavery or not

Answer 41

What did the Kansas Nebraska Act allow?

Question 42

An abolitionist that used violence to try and stop slavery from expanding.

Answer 42

Who was John Brown?