Battles
First fired shots of the Civil War. Confederate Victory, fought in South Carolina.
Battle of Fort Sumter
President of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
The political party that was against slavery.
Republicans
Georgia
Slave State, Confederacy
Why the Southern states wanted to succeed and form the Confederacy
To keep and preserve slavery because they thought Abraham Lincoln was going to abolish it.
Battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North. Bloodiest single day in American history, 23,000 causalities.
Battle of Antietam
Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war
William Sherman
Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
Habeas Corpus
Maryland
Slave State BUT remained in the U.S. (Union)
Better industry, factories, railroads and more people.
Reasons the North (Union) won
1863, Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two, Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins
Battle of Vicksburg
an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. On the $50 bill.
Ulysses S. Grant
Declaration issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.
Emancipation Proclamation
North Carolina
Slave State, part of Confederacy
More military leadership and experience with their generals
What the South (Confederacy) had going for them
the event that marked the last major Confederate attempt to invade the North and made it clear that the Union would win - 50,000 died in this three day battle.
Battle of Gettysburg
Commander of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
What years was the Civil War fought between?
1861-1865
Pennsylvania
Free State, part of Union
Major strategic railroads were connected in (t)here
Sherman's reason for marching into Atlanta
Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying _______ and burned the city
Battle of Atlanta
General in the Confederate army, led Confederate army in the 1st Battle of Bull Run
Stonewall Jackson
What year did slavery (except as pubishment for a crime) end in the United States?
1865
Kentucky
Slave State BUT remained in the U.S. (Union)
To preserve the Union. In other words, to stop the southern states from leaving the United States and forming their own country called The Confederacy.
Lincoln's motivation for beginning the war