Legal Stuff
Southerners held to this theory that the states, not the people, created the national government, and so they had the right to succeed _________________
Compact Theory
The President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Resulted in the North gaining the Mississippi River, and dividing the south
Battle of Vicksburg
This encounter made wooden military ships obsolete
The Merrimack and the Monitor
The South believed Europe would support their succession because of this
King Cotton
The first state to succeed the Union, on December 20, 1860 was________
South Carolina
McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade, Grant
Lincoln's Generals
First battle of the Civil War - picnickers came in carriages to watch -- give both names
Battle of Fort Bull Run / Manassas
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here in April 1861 --- also including the city and state
Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and newly formed West Virginia
Border states
Declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
The Emancipation Proclamation
A term used to define Tecumseh Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah that included burning, looting, and unpunished crimes against civilians.
Total War
Bloodiest battle of the Civil War, Lee's last offensive into the North, considered the turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
Name four new technologies that made the American Civil War the first modern war
Watches, Trains, Telegraph, Gatlin Gun and other weapons
The North and the South both had to instituted this
Conscription aka Draft
This event triggered the Secession Crisis that directly caused the war
Election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln
President Andrew Johnson ignored the ___________, released Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, and was impeached.
Tenure of Office Act
Bloodiest battle in US history until Antietam and Gettysburg, commanders included Grant for the Union and Johnson and Beauregard for the South
Shilo
The American Civil War started and Ended
On Wilmer McLean's Property
Home near Manassas
Home at Appomattox
The southern economy suffered from this during the war
High Inflation
Four things Lincoln did that exceeded his authority as president
Suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus
Declared martial law
Called for a blockade of the South
Enlarged the size of the military
The first black senator, who replaced Jefferson Davis
Hiram Revels
The bloodiest single day of battle in America’s history (at that time)
Antietam
The South's strongest military strength was
Its generals: Lee, Jackson...
Name 4 advantages the North had in the Civil War
Industrialized
Merchant Marine and Navy
Banking System
Strong Central Government