Section 1 Vocabulary
This Fort protected Charleston, South Carolina from invaders and was the site of the first shots of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This battle was the first major battle of the Civil War and the Confederate's victory, shattered the North's hopes of winning the war quickly.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
He was a General in charge of Union forces and accepted the eventual surrender of General Lee.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
This order issued by President Lincoln freed the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union, effective January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Wedged between the North and the South-Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
What are Border States?
He was in command of the Confederate army in Virginia, had attended US Military Academy at West Point and served in the Mexican-American war.
Who is Robert E Lee
As a result of this battle the Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River Valley.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
An escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War.
What are contrabands?
He was an American general famed for his failed charge at Cemetery Ridge, considered a turning point of the Civil War.
Who is George Pickett?
He developed a 2 part strategy hoping to help the Union defeat the Confederacy.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
This was the bloodiest single day battle in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
American Admiral who captured New Orleans and maintained a blockade along the Gulf Coast.
Who is David Farragut?
A group of Northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
What are copperheads?
A series of battles between Union and Confederate forces in northern and central Virginia that delayed the Union capture of Richmond.
What is the Wilderness Campaign?
The idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's cotton.
What is cotton diplomacy?
He was an American army general put in charge of Union troops and later removed by Lincoln for failure to press Lee's Confederate troops in Richmond.
Who is George McClellan?
The Union army's 6 week crusade that led to the surrender of the city.
What is the siege of Vicksburg?
The constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is habeas corpus?
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
A series of Civil War battles in which Confederate army successes forced the Union army to retreat from Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital.
What is the Seven Days' Battle?
The first all black regiment that fought at Fort Wagner during the Civil War for the Union army.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
What is Appomattox Courthouse?