Civil War Vocabulary

Civil War Vocabulary

​- Abraham Lincoln​

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved -- I do not expect the house to fall -- but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. 

New Terms

• Abraham Lincoln - ​16^th President of the United States. He was president during the Civil War

• ​Confederacy - The group of southern states that started their own country to protect the practice of slavery​

• ​Emancipation Proclamation - Executive order by President Lincoln freeing the slaves in southern states​

• ​Battle of Gettysburg - Bloodiest battle of the Civil War. It was a major victory for the northern army in 1863

• Seceded - the act of separating from something​

Multiple Choice

The Battle of ____________ was the bloodiest battle of the war and a major win for the North (Union) in July 1863.

• Chancellorsville

• Bull Run

• Gettysburg

• Chattanooga

Multiple Choice

The President of the United States during the Civil War was

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• James Buchanan

• Franklin Pierce

Multiple Choice

The southern states seceded from the Union to form the ___________

• Aristocracy

• Confederacy

• Municipality

• Bureaucracy

Multiple Choice

Executive order by Lincoln that freed all slaves in southern states

• Abolition Statement

• Freedom Law

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 13th Amendment

Open Ended

1)     Why did southern states secede from the country in 1861?

Open Ended

2)     Why was the Emancipation Proclamation important?

Open Ended

3)     Why was northern morale (how they felt about the war) weak?