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This side of the war fought to preserve slavery (give both names).
What was the Confederacy/South?
This was General Winfield Scott's plan to beat the confederacy by cutting it in half and squeezing it from both sides with a naval blockage.
What is the Anaconda plan?
He was President of the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
These were the capitals of the Union and Confederacy. Surprisingly, they were only 100 miles apart.
What are Washington, D.C. and Richmond Virginia?
He assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
______ was the first battle of the Civil War. It was attacked by the __________.
Ft. Sumter
South/Confederacyt
This is what the Union needed to achieve to be successful.
What is recapture the South / capture Richmond?
This was the most famous general of the Confederacy. Lincoln originally asked him to lead the Union military.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The Union's focus in the war changed to ending slavery in the states in rebellion after Lincoln gave this speech.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
_____________ was the period after the Civil War where the federal government controlled and then reintegrated the South.
What was Reconstruction?
This is what the Union was fighting for at the beginning of the war.
What was to preserve the Union?
This was General Sherman's strategy to destroy the infrastructure of the South. His army destroyed railroads, factories, farms, etc.
What was total war?
These were the two most famous generals of the Union.
Who were Grant and Sherman?
____________ were slave states that stayed in the Union.
What were border states?
This amendment abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This Supreme court case affirmed fugitive slave laws and said Black Americans could never be citizens.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The Confederacy tried to make an alliance with these two countries.
What were Great Britain and France?
This gifted Confederate general was known for pushing his troops extremely hard. He was very religious, and very successful until he died.
Who was Stonewall Jackson?
Many people debate that one of these two battles was the turning point of the Civil War.
What are the Battle of Gettysburg and Seige (Battle) of Vicvksburg?
This amendment made it illegal to deny voting rights to people based on their color, race, or previously being a slave. It did not give this right to women. (And many Black Americans were still denied the right to vote).
What is the 15th Amendment?
This event, which involved fighting between slave owners and abolitionists in one territory (later state), was known as a prelude to the Civil War.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This describes Grant's strategy as top general, which was very different than his predecessors.
What was he was bold (he didn't mind losing men), and focused on fighting and beating Confederate armies instead of capturing cities?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
These were three of the advantages the Union had over the Confederacy.
What are more railroad lines, a larger population, a large manufacturing sector, more capital (money), (both of the last two meant better equipped soldiers), naval control, greater food supply, etc.
This Amendment granted citizenship to all people born into the United States and Equal Protection of the laws.
What is the 14th Amendment?