Battles and Turning Points
This 3-day battle in Pennsylvania stopped Lee’s push into the North.
What is Gettysburg?
He was the president of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states only.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Sherman’s march focused on destroying these instead of civilians.
What are supply lines, railroads, factories, or communication lines?
The place where Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This city’s fall on July 4, 1863 gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
He was the leading Confederate general throughout the war.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
After the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans could do this in the Union Army.
What is enlist/fight?
This is the Union’s main goal at the START of the war.
What is preserving the Union?
Lincoln was assassinated at this theater.
What is Ford’s Theatre?
This was the turning point YEAR of the Civil War.
What is 1863?
This nurse founded the American Red Cross after aiding wounded soldiers.
Who is Clara Barton?
Why didn’t the Emancipation Proclamation free enslaved people in border states?
Lincoln feared those states might secede.
Name one reason the Union had an advantage at the start of the war.
More factories
Larger population
More railroads
Stronger navy
Why did Grant offer generous surrender terms?
To reunite the nation quickly and peacefully.
Name one advantage the Union gained after Gettysburg AND Vicksburg.
Control of Mississippi
Boosted morale
Stopped Confederate invasion
Split the Confederacy in half
This African American abolitionist advised Lincoln and pushed for Black enlistment in the Union Army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This term describes enslaved people who escaped to Union lines seeking protection.
What are contrabands?
The Confederate strategy was mostly defensive because they wanted THIS to happen.
The Union gives up / war becomes too costly.
What major question did the U.S. face after the war regarding enslaved people?
What rights and freedoms would they have?
This Union general led the troops at Vicksburg and later accepted Lee’s surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
He replaced McClellan and led the march from Atlanta to Savannah.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Name one political effect of emancipation on the Civil War.
Made war about freedom, not just unity
Kept Europe from supporting the Confederacy
Boosted Union morale
Hurt Confederate labor force
This was Grant’s final strategy to force Lee’s surrender.
Continuous pressure / siege warfare / cutting off escape routes
Reconstruction required solving these three major issues. Name one.
Rebuilding the South
Defining rights for freedpeople
Reuniting the nation
Determining political control