People
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Effort to blockade the South and capture the Mississippi River
Anaconda Plan
Capital of the Confederacy
Richmond
Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia
Appamattox Court House
First major land battle of the war
First Battle of Bull Run
leader of the Army of Northern Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Northern ironclad ship
Monitor
After which battle was the Union Army trapped in Chattanooga?
Battle of Chickamauga
Southern view that each state was largely an independent entity joined with other states that were not subordinate to centralized national authority
state's rights
Confederate loss that left Georgia open to invasion
Battle of Chattanooga
leader of the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant
Continual fighting in the woods north of Richmond
Wilderness Campaign
Pickett's Charge was the final attempt by Confederates to win at _____________.
Gettysburg
Why did Robert E. Lee choose to fight against the Union?
Defense of his home state
Marked the end of the South's offensive capabilities
Battle of Gettysburg
Famous Nurse who helped form the American National Red Cross
Clara Barton
What caused a major riot in New York in 1863?
Conscription
Which state was admitted to the Union during the war?
West Virginia
British ship illegally stopped by Union ships
the Trent
Occurred just before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued
Battle of Antietam
Comander who captured New Orleans
David Farragut
The South's primary advantage at the outset of the war
better commanders
The March to the Sea was Sherman's campaign where?
Georgia
Southern sympathizers in the North
Copperheads
Confederate loss that gave the North total control of the Mississippi River
siege of Vicksburg