Military Strategies
How did the North use to cut off supplies to the South?
Blockades
Where did most of the fighting take place?
Northern Virginia and along the Mississippi River
What freed the slaves in the Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
Why were some plantation owners excused from the war?
"20 Slave" Law
Where did the North want to break the South in two at?
Mississippi River
Where did the first shots of the Civil War take place?
Fort Sumter
What was the name of the Union unit of African American soldiers?
54th Massachusetts
What was the role of women in the Civil War?
Tending to farms and nurses
What did the North want to destroy in the South to cripple the morale?
transportation and communication
When the North captured Port Royal, they used it as a base to attack what city?
Charleston, SC
Who was a former slave from SC who bebcame an officer and a state legislator after the Civil War?
Robert Smalls
What was the role of African Americans in the Civil War?
Fight in Union Army or forced to fight in Confederate Army
What city did the North really want to attack?
Richmond
Who marched into South Carolina after capturing Atlanta?
General William Sherman
What was the role of children in the Civil War?
help on the farm, drummer boys in the army
What wa the South's strategy?
Fight a defensive war
What military strategy did Sherman use in his march to the sea?
Total war