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The act of removing oneself from an organization or alliance.
Secede
The act of spying to gather information about the enemy's positions or weaknesses.
Scouting
The principle that the federal government has only limited authority over each state is called
states' rights
Abraham Lincoln
Weapons, ammunition, and equipment used in war
Munition
A temporary fortification where guns are mounted.
Seigeworks
The notice that promised to free all enslaved people was the__________________.
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
To discuss or bargain between 2 or more parties in order to reach an agreement
Negotiate
The period after the Civil War when America was being rebuilt by reuniting the physically, socially, and politically.
Reconstruction
Which Union general did the president trust most of all?
Ulysses S. Grant
Which Confederate general stood "like a stone wall" during the battle of Bull Run?
Thomas Jackson
A military operation in which a city or a fort is completely surrounded, cutting off help and supplies to force a surrender.
Seige
The battle that had a profound influence on the Civil War was fought at ______________.
Gettysburg
Which Confederate general was the most famous and became the superintendent of West Point?
Robert E. Lee
Which Union general attempted to capture Richmond from the Confederates in the Peninsular Campaign?
George McClellan
The bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War was fought at _____________.
Antietam
Robert E. Lee surrendered at ___________________.
Appomattox Courthouse
Who captured and burned Atlanta, an important railroad for the Confederacy?
William T. Sherman
Explain what the election of 1860 meant for many Southerners.
It meant the end of their way of life. They did not know how to life without slaves.