VA/US Unit 5

Front

What is to secede?

Back

to separate from a group

Front

Who was Dred Scott?

Back

a slave who sued for his freedom

Front

What US president called for federal troops in 1861?

Back

Lincoln

Front

What is considered the opening confrontation of the Civil War?

Back

Fort Sumter

Front

Where is the site of Lee's surrender to Grant?

Back

Appomattox

Front

What is considered the turning point of the Civil War?

Back

Gettysburg

Front

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

Back

Jefferson Davis

Front

Who was the commander of the Union military?

Back

Ulysses S. Grant

Front

Who was the former enslaved person who became a prominent black abolitionist who urged Lincoln to recruit former enslaved to fight for the Union?

Back

Frederick Douglass

Front

What speech said the US was one nation not a federation of independent states?

Back

Gettysburg Address