This battle sparked the beginning of the Civil War
What is the battle of Fort Sumter?
100
This was the North’s main disadvantage throughout the entire war
What was being forced to travel farther distances into the South because they mainly had to attack instead of defend, which made it harder for them to keep supplies?
100
The Union used this strategy to gain control over the Mississippi River
What is cutting off food production in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas?
200
A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
What is Habeas corpus?
200
Midwesterners that sympathized the South and opposed abolition
Who are copperheads?
200
This side had more casualties in the Seven Days Battle
What is the Confederacy?
200
This was the South’s main disadvantage throughout the entire war
What was having far less people to choose from, less supplies, and not being able to export/import, making them lose a lot of supplies as well?
200
The Confederate army tried to break through the Union’s blockade by doing this
What is cutting off food production in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas?
300
This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry
What is cotton diplomacy?
300
He said “the great day which is to determine the destiny not only of the American Republic, but that of the American Continent.”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
These people were the Confederate and Union generals during the Battle of Antietam
Who are Robert E. Lee and George B. McClellan?
300
This is the reason why the South had such limited supplies
The North had control and cut off their export/imports, the South did not have the ability to get better supplies. Also, since their economy was declining, they had even more problems.
300
This was the South's main strategy
What was having a defensive war of attribution?
400
General William Tecumseh Sherman practiced this, destroying civilian and economic resources
What is total war?
400
He favored a swift, decisive attack on Richmond by way of Fredericksburg
Who is General Ambrose E. Burnside?
400
During the battle of Fredericksburg, Lincoln was frustrated with this Union General's lack of aggression and switched him out with this general
Who are George B. McClellan and Ambrose E. Burnside?
400
This was the Union’s main disadvantage
They had untrained soldiers so it was really disorganized and they had to teach them to fight from scratch.
400
The Union's plan to cut off supplies by naval blockades.
What was the "Anaconda Plan"?
500
The small town where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
500
General Robert E. Lee ran into this person's troops which triggered the battle of Gettysburg
Who is General George G. Meade?
500
This side surrendered on this day, ending the Civil War
What is the Confederacy and April 9, 1865
500
These are the challenges that the Union faced during battle
What is fighting on Confederate land and not knowing their surroundings, often getting ambushed?
500
Naval blockade, Control of Mississippi River, Sherman's simultaneous attack on Georgia & the Carolinas, and the fall of the Confederacy's economy.
What were the four major components of the final Union war strategy?