Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
Secede
The tactic which called for the destruction of the enemy’s resources such as animals, supplies, railroads, and factories. What was this?
Total War/Scorched Earth
What were the two sides in the civil war? What were they called and what were the colors of their uniforms?
North: Union. United States of America, Blue Uniforms
South: Confederacy, Confederates states of America, Grey Uniforms.
what battle was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?
What is the Battle of Antietam?
North: Industrialized, Urbanized, more immigrants, Banned slavery, lots of immigrants, more diverse, More people, More money, more factories, more food,
South: Agricultural, Lots of slavery, relied on trade with other countries for their supplies, Mostly Cash Crops like Cotton and Tobacco, Much smaller population,
The top general (leader) of the largest Confederate Army. His surrender ended the war.
General Robert E. Lee
Group of people opposed to slavery
abolitionists
This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
What was Uncle Toms Cabin and how did it help lead to the civil war?
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
Secede, leave the Union
Most of the destruction (complete ruin) was in the ______ since most of the battles were fought here.
South
This woman was one of the main conductors of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
What were the 3 failed compromises on slavery before the civil war?
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas)
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
His goal was to steal guns and arm enslaved people so they could fight for their freedom. He was captured and executed.
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
Battle with the most casualties in the civil war? (nearly 50,000) Was a turning point in the war, Union started to win after this terrible battle.
Gettysburg
What was controversial about Abraham Lincoln being elected president in 1860?
He received no votes from the southern states and than the south seceded from the north starting the civil war.
Top Union General who was successful in defeating the Confederates using his war of attrition strategy.
Ulysses S. Grant
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where? Why did it not free all of the slaves?
Slave states in the Confederacy.
Lincoln did not have that power and didn't want to lose the boarder states.
What were two Northern Advantages in the war?
What are a larger population, more supplies/resources; industrialization, more railroads and telegraphs, much larger navy, more food and money. Eventually better strategies, leaders, and Generals,
Name a General Abraham Lincoln fired?
George McClellan (twice), Ambrose Burnsides, Fighting Joe Hooker, John Pope.
Final large battle of the civil war. Place where Lee surrendered to Grant, effectively ending the civil war.
Appomattox Court House
Southern advantages in the war
Home field Advantage, great military leaders and soldiers.
Union General who did a "March to the Sea" in Georgia to cut the Confederacy in half and destroy their supplies.
What were the 3 steps of the North's Anaconda Plan
Control the Mississippi River
Blockade Southern ports
The first official battle of the Civil War
Bull Run/Manassas
States that supported the Union and did not join the Confederacy despite being slave states.
Border States
Shortly after a union victory at this location Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Where is Antietam?
What were the Dates of the Civil War
April 12, 1861- April 9, 1865
Who was the 54th Massachusetts Infantry
First famous all black regiment in the Civil War. The regiment from the movie we watched, Glory.
Name a civil war battle that was a seige?
Fort Sumter, Petersburg, Vicksburg, Fort Wagner.
Name 6 inventions around the time of the civil war that were used in the war?
Ironclad ships, Hot Air Balloons, Telegraph, Railroad, submarines, Repeating Rifles, Minie balls (Rifled Bullets), Photography, Morphine, Embalming Fluid, Gatling Gun (first Machine Gun), Improved artillery with exploding shells
Name two reasons for the Civil War
the differences in geography and the different economies of the North/South; the issue over states' rights; the issue of slavery; the Missouri Compromise; Bleeding Kansas; John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry; the Election of 1860.
Name a civil war battle that did NOT take place in Maryland, Virgina, or Pennsylvania.
Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Savanna, Fort Sumter, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Fort Wagner, Shiloh
Reasons for Britain's refusal to help the South
They did not believe in slavery