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?
Name a different between the North and South before the civil war
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 were the 3 different ‘sections’ in sectionalism in the United States
The west, north, south
The first state to leave the Union in 1860 - the same year that Lincoln won the presidential election
South Carolina
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 was 1 of 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,
Sherman’s March took place between these two Georgia cities
Atlanta to Savannah
Besides South Carolina, Name a Confederate State of America
Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas
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.
The Emancipation Proclamation was not a law passed by congress. It was . . .
An executive order
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 year did the Civil War start and end?
April 12, 1861- April 9, 1865
Who was the President of the Confederate State of America
Jefferson Davis
First shots of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Which of the following is the missing in the correct order of events leading to the beginning of the Civil War?
Fugitive Slave Act passed, ________________, South Carolina secedes from Union, Confederate forces bombard Fort Sumter
Lincoln is elected to be president of the united states
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 border state
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, West Virigina
Reasons for Britain's refusal to help the South
They did not believe in slavery