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during what year was slavery introduced to the south?
what were the 3 main causes of the civil war besides slavery?
states vs federal rights, economics, and the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
who is Jefferson Davis?
the confederate states president.
who was on the confederate's side of the war?
Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia.
how many confederates died?
258,000 Confederate deaths
when did the civil war start?
April 12, 1861
What were some social effects of the Civil War?
what is John Brown significant for?
led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), in 1859 that he hoped would spark a slave rebellion. It led to the American Civil War (1861–65).
who was on the Union's side of the war?
Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon.
how many union deaths?
360,222 Union deaths
what was juneteenth?
the day when 250,000 slaves in the state of Texas, which became the last bastion for slavery during the final days of the Civil War, were declared free by the U.S. Army.
How did the civil war affect the economy?
Business and industry became dominant in the northern economy.
How did Ulysses S. Grant affect the outcome of the American Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant achieved two major Union victories early in the war. He later became commander of all Union forces after seizing Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grant ordered Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman to take Atlanta in the South while he marched on the Confederate army in Virginia. Grant’s strategy defeated the Confederacy by 1865.
how many African Americans fought on the Confederate side of the war?
more than 3,000 but fewer than 10,000.
how many African Americans died?
Nearly 40,000 died
what was the bloodiest battle of the civil war?
Gettysburg, in 1863.
How much damage did the Civil War cause?
What were Abraham Lincoln’s chief goals in the American Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln’s chief goal in the American Civil War was to preserve the Union. At the outset of the war, he would have done so at any cost, including by allowing slavery to continue. However, abolishing slavery would become a nonnegotiable objective for him as the war progressed because of his long-expressed abhorrence for the practice and because of the growing antislavery sentiment among his fellow Northerners. His intransigence on the subject scuttled possibilities of a peace conference between the Union and the Confederacy in 1864.
how many african americans fought on the union side of the war?
186,000 Black soldiers
What was the major cause of death in the Civil War?
Pneumonia, typhoid, diarrhea/dysentery, and malaria were the predominant illnesses. Altogether, two-thirds of the approximately 660,000 deaths of soldiers were caused by uncontrolled infectious diseases
What was the 12 year period after the Civil War?
Reconstruction Era
Who was assassinated in the Civil War?
April 14, 1865, when President Lincoln was shot while attending a play at Ford's Theatre.
Who won the American Civil War?
The Union won the American Civil War. The war effectively ended in April 1865 when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The final surrender of Confederate troops on the western periphery came in Galveston, Texas, on June 2.
What were the nicknames for the Union and Confederate soldiers?
The Northerners were called “Yankees” and the Southerners, “Rebels.”
how many casualties throughout the whole civil war?
~624,511 casualties + deaths