VUS.7 Events, People, Documents

Front

Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War?

Back

Fort Sumter

Front

The turning point of the Civil War?

Back

Gettysburg

Front

What speech is best remembered for these words? - "of the people, by the people, for the people.. . "

Back

Gettysburg Address

Front

Famous abolitionist who recruited former slaves as soldiers?

Back

Fredrick Douglass

Front

The Emancipation Proclamation --

Back

made abolition of slavery a war goal, allowed African Americans to serve as soldiers, freed the slaves in the rebelling states

Front

Lincoln's view of what to do with the southern states when the war ended was: readmit to the Union as quickly as possible, punish the south, occupy the south with northern troops, leave them to form a new nation

Back

readmit to the Union as quickly as possible

Front

The Battle at Fort Sumter, SC is significant because it was the FIRST --

Back

military confrontation of the Civil War

Front

Abraham Lincoln is elected President
Battle of Fort Sumter
Which event completes this list? South Carolina secedes from the Union

Back

South Carolina secedes from the Union

Front

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

...that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Back

The Gettysburg address

Front

"with malice toward none and charity for all, to bind up the nation's wounds". This quote refers to Lincoln's idea that ---

Back

the Union should welcome the southern states back without punishment