Civil War : Causes, major events, consequences

About how many Americans died in the Civil War?

600,000

People who worked to end slavery were called

Abolutionists

Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant to end the Civil War?

At the McLean Home in Appomattox Court House Virginia.

What Civil War battle caused around 51,000 injuries or deaths and destroyed the surrounding land?

Battle of Gettysburg

Why wasn't the South able to contribute financially to rebuilding the nation?

Both the North and South suffered losses, but the South was more destroyed than the North.

On April 12-13, 1861, the first shots of the Civil War were fired by Confederate forces. What U.S. Army installation did they fire upon and where is it located?

Fort Sumter, in Charleston, South Carolina.

What West Point graduate from Virginia ultimately decided to be the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia instead of going with the Union? He did not want the South to leave the Union, but sided with the South anyway.

General Robert E. Lee

Why did the commander at Fort Sumter surrender?

He did not have enough supplies to withstand a prolonged siege.

What political problem faced the United States at the end of the Civil War?

How to bring the defeated states back into the Union, so we could be one country again.

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow states to decide?

If they wanted to allow slavery in their territory.

Why did the book, Uncle Tom's cabin give the abolition movement a major boost?

It convinced people that slavery was morally wrong.

In 1863, President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. What did this proclamation state?

It freed enslaved people in states and in territories that were in rebellion.

What did the Missouri Compromise do?

It tried to make the number of free states and slave states equal as people moved west.

The West Point Graduate who served as president of the Confederacy. He believed in continued slavery and for the reauthorization of the slave trade.

Jefferson Davis.

Name a major cause of the Civil War

People in the North & South disagreed about slavery

What confederate general surrendered to Ulysses Grant at the end of the Civil War?

Robert E. Lee

When the South lost the Civil War, what major change occurred in the South?

Slavery was no longer allowed. All slaves were free.

Why were there so many widows and orphans that needed care for over 50 years after the war?

So many soldiers were killed in the Civil War battles

What was the main argument the SOUTH had for allowing slavery?

States rights. They felt the individual states had the right to choose.

What battle is considered the turning point of the civil war and why?

The Battle of Gettysburg. It permanently halted Confederate advances northward.

What U.S. conflict occurred during the mid 19th century? (1861-1865)

The Civil War

Abraham Lincoln, our 16th president vowed to preserve what?

The Union

What event showed the North that a war could not be avoided?

The firing of shots and capture of Fort Sumter.

After the civil war, why did many people from the North move South?

They provided goods and services, worked to rebuild cities and rebuild infrastructures like bridges and railroads and came to help the former slaves with education and finding jobs.

Serving under Robert E. Lee, this confederate soldier led his troops through some of the war's difficult early battles. He was wounded by his own troops in Virginia.

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

What was the goal of General William Sherman's "March to the Sea?"

To destroy property and make Southerners realize they could not win the war, so they would give up.

Why did John Brown want to take weapons from the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia? (Harper's Ferry is now in W. Virginia)

To give weapons to slaves so they could fight for their freedom.

What West Point Graduate served as General-in-Chief of the Union Forces from 1864-65. He was also the 18th president of the U.S.

Ulysses S. Grant

What book written from 1851-1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe gave the abolition movement a major boost?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Where was Robert E. Lee forced to retreat after losing the Battle of Gettysburg?

Virginia.