Civil War (Part 2) and Suffrage Movement Vocabulary

__________ was the location of the first shots of the Civil War when Confederates fired on the Union.

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Fort Sumter

• Gettysburg

• Atlanta

________ is considered the most important battle of the Civil War because it was a turning point for the Union.

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Chancellorsville

The ________ was a speech made by President Lincoln in dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery.

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Independence

• Bill of Rights

________ was a military campaign conducted through Georgia when General William T. Sherman and his soldiers burned down everything in their path on their way to Savannah.

• Sherman's March to the Sea

• Sherman's Southern Campaign

• Sherman's Georgia Expedition

• Sherman's Savannah Route

________ was the site of the surrender of Confederate army (Robert E. Lee) to the Union army (Ulysses S. Grant), ending the Civil War.

• Appomattox Court House

• Gettysburg

• Antietam

• Fort Sumter

The ________ was a statement issued in 1863 by President Lincoln that freed slaves in the Confederate states at war with the Union.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

• Monroe Doctrine

• Bill of Rights

________ is the right to vote, especially in a political election.

• Suffrage
• Abolition

• Segregation

• Equity

A ________ is a person advocating that the right to vote be extended to more people, especially to women.

• Suffragist

• Activist

• Revolutionary

• Reformer

________ was a U.S. reformer and suffragist who was born in 1820 and died in 1906.

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

________ was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women’s rights movements who was born in 1815 and died in 1902.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

• Harriet Tubman