Civil War Vocabulary

What was created to keep balance between slave states and free states?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Anaconda Plan

• Emancipation Proclamation

Following this deal, California was added as a free state to the Union and the Fugitive Slave Law was strengthened.

• Compromise of 1850

• Secession

• 3/5 Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

Southern states that seceded from the United States.

• Confederacy

• Union

Northern states that the United States of America.

• Confederacy

• Union

The Election of (a)   , Abraham Lincoln was elected for the first time and Southerners vowed to leave the Union.

What was the first battle of the civil war which was a Confederate victory.

• Gettysburg

• Antietam

• Appomattox

• Fort Sumter

What was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?

• Gettysburg

• Antietam

• Bull Run

• Fort Sumter

Marked the end of the Civil War and the place where Lee surrendered to Grant.

• Gettysburg

• Appomattox

• Antietam

• Bull Run

Significant battle that was a Union victory and stopped the South from invading the North.

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• Fort Sumter

• Antietam

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all ______ from states in ______ in the Confederacy.

• free, Union

• slaves, the Union

• immigrants, North

• slaves, rebellion