Civil War Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Civil War | a war between citizens of the same country. |
Fort Sumnter | Fort Sumnter Fort attacked by South Carolina starting the Civil War. (April 12, 1861) |
Battle of Bull Run | First major clash of Union and Confederate armies. It showed both armies that the war would not be quick. |
Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North. |
Ulysses S. Grant | an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. |
Appomattox Court House | Famous as the site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse, where the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee To Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 9, 1865 |
Jefferson Davis | an American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force |
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