Civil War Vocabulary (8th Grade ESL Tutoring)

Site of Confederate surrender Robert E. Lee to Union general Ulysses S. Grant ending the War

Supreme Court decision not granting slaves freedom whom moved from slave to free states

Constitutional document that gave citizenship to freed African American ex-slaves

Union path of destruction capturing Atlanta and Savannah Georgia along the southern coast

Constitutional document that gave African Amercian males the right to vote

belief states had right to secede or nullify Federal laws they believed did not benefit them

Period after the Civil War when the North helped the South rebuild as they rejoined the Union

The 16th President elected in 1860 who fought to Preserve the Union and emancipate the slaves

First major battle of Civil War won by a brilliant Confederate General named Stonewall Jackson

Supported abolitionist movement by writing the book Uncle Tom's Cabin (the evils of slavery)

required northerners to help catch runaway slaves so they may be returned to their masters

withdrawing from the Union to form new country

Constitutional document the made slavery illegal

The President of the Southern of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War

General of all the Union armies of the North towards the end of the War also captured Vicksburg

Lincoln's famous speech at the battefield dedication honoring the men who died for freedom

Woman's rights and suffrage leader who opposed the 15th amendment because it excluded women

Brilliant General of all the Confederate armies of the South who surrendered at Appomattox

victory by Union General Ulysses S. Grant which gave the North control of the Mississippi river

a person who wanted to get rid of slavery

Lincoln became the 16th U.S. President and the South seceded in fear he would abolish slavery

1st Battle of Civil War when Confederate troops fired upon Union troops starting the Civil War

Lincoln's executive order to free all the slaves in the south but not in the border states

largest single battle of the Civil War with 53,000 casualties but turned the tide of the war

led a failed abolitionist revolt at the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry but was captured