Battles
After the attack at Fort Sumter, what did President Lincoln do?
President Lincoln called for volunteers to enlist
General Burnside resigned after what battle?
Battle of Fredericksburg
The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves ____.
in seceded states.
A _____ ws a way to stop the South from receiving goods.
blockade
pistols
Northerners were certain they would win at Manassas Junction. They ________.
traveled from Washington to watch the battle.
After the Battle of Antietam, General George McClellan was replaced because he ______.
did not follow Lee into Virginia.
President Buchanan suggested that ______
the North return all runaway slaves.
________ destroyed crops, railroads, and bridges in Georgia.
Sherman's March
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What is considered the turning point of the war?
Battle of Gettysburg
Who was the Union leader who captured Fort Henry?
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was the first group of African soldiers from a free state?
54th Massachusetts Volunteers
The ______ included stopping all shipping on the Mississippi River.
Anaconda Plan
rebuild
Confederates fired on the supply ship that President Buchanan sent to ______.
Fort Sumter
Many Civil War generals were _____ of the Mexican War.
Veterans
The _____ had most of the country's industries and factories
North
General Lee surrendered to General Grant near _____
Appomattox Court House
Stonewall Jackson defeated the Union troops at _____
Manassas Junction
General Lee was forced to _____ at the end of the Battle of Antietam.
retreat
The Virginia was a Confederate _____ that used to be called USS Merrimac.
ironclad
Describe two of Ulysses S. Grant's achievements during the Civil War.
Grant became Chief of the Union armies and then the Union started to win battles; his troops were among those that trapped General Lee in Atlanta. Grant met with Lee in Virginia and gave generous terms of surrender to the Confederates.
Describe the South's war plan at the beginning of the war.
The South's war plan was to act defensively. They wanted to fight on their own soil, they thought the North would grow tired of war, and that Europe might break the Union blockade