US HISTORY: Civil War

A series of agreements to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states.

A weakness of the Union was

All of the following EXCEPT ONE were Confederate States. Which one was NOT a Confederate State?

A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether or not to allow slavery.

Document that freed slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states. Didn't totally end slavery

Approximately how many soldiers died in the Civil War?

The last battle fought in the Civil War was

Who won the Civil War?

True or False? People who are wounded or killed are called casualties.

A weakness of the Confederacy was

Escaped slavery in 1838 and became an anti-slavery speaker.

Who won the Battle of Ft. Sumter

Which was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?

The first bloody battle that the Confederacy won in 1861.

The Supreme Court decision. Said slaves couldn't sue in fed. court because they aren't citizens

True or False? The Confederacy surrendered to the Union.

True or False? More soldiers died from combat than disease during the Civil War.

To formally withdraw from a group, organization or alliance.

What did the 13th Amendment do?

Period of time after war when the government worked to reunite the nation & rebuild the south.

Warships that are heavily armored with iron

The General for the Confederacy was

All of the following EXCEPT ONE were Union States. Which one was NOT a Union State?

The General for the Union was

What did the 15th Amendment allow?

Who assassinated President Lincoln?

Which state was first to secede from the Union?

A person who worked to end slavery

Where and when was the first battle of the Civil War?

Led 300 slaves to freedom. Symbol of the Underground Railroad.

What did the 14th Amendment expand?

Slave states that lay between the Union and the Confederacy and did not join the Confederacy.

Northerners who went to the South for economic reasons after war. Took advantage of citizens.

The President for the Confederacy was

True or False? The Confederacy had better trained leaders than the Union?

The President for the Union was