Part 1
To withdraw from or split away from.
Secede. The South seceded from the US when Lincoln was elected president.
What we call the free states during the war.
Union.
North- Union
South- Confederacy
Washington D.C.
Document signed by Lincoln freeing the slaves in the Confederacy.
Emancipation Proclamation
Fort in South Carolina where the Civil War began.
Fort Sumter
Elected president of the US in 1860. Was president during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Capital of the Confederacy.
Richmond, VA
The first major battle of the war.
Battle of Bull Run
When a person is murdered for political reasons.
Assassination
Lincoln was assassinated towards the end of the Civil War by John Wilkes Booth.
What the states that had seceded called themselves.
Confederacy. AKA the confederate states of America.
Elected president of the Confederacy.
Slaveholding states that did not secede. Between North & South- Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland.
Border States
Union plan to cut the South in half making it difficult to supply troops. Named after a snake.
Anaconda Plan
Lincoln's famous speech after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Gettysburg Address
Southern states wanted to govern themselves outside of the Federal government's control. They argue that they have the right to secede and regulate slavery on their own.
States' Rights
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia for the Confederacy.
Robert E. Lee
The leading Union general at the end of the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
The first battle fought in Union territory. Most casualties of any single day of the war.
Battle of Antietam
The deadliest battle of the war. Fought on Union territory. Union victory is the turning point of the war.
Battle of Gettysburg