A principle which allowed the confederate states to make up with their own laws
What were the states' rights?
100
First Battle of Bull Run took place in northern Virginia when 30,000 inexperienced troops from the Union made their General McDowell attack the Confederacy’s General Beauregard
Where and what was the first battle of the Civil War?
100
He was Jefferson Davis who ordered Lee to launch an offensive into Maryland
Who was the president of the Confederate States?
100
600,000 soldiers which is a very big tradgedy to the US
How many soldiers died in the civil war?
200
July 1861
When did the first battle, First Battle of Bull Run, start?
200
During the war, southern leaders sometimes changed strategy and went on the attack. By this they would move their armies north wanting the north to know that they cannot win the war.
What is the offense?
200
This war happened in Sharpsburg, Maryland and was the bloodiest battle in the entire civil war.
Where did the Battle of Antietam take place?
200
In 1861, these people were the confederate army’s 112,000 soldiers
Who were the rebels?
200
Senator Abraham Lincoln due to Sherman being captured in Atlanta
Who won the election in 1864?
300
7 states left the Union to form the Confederate states on this date
What happened on February 1861?
300
The thirteenth amendment was approved in 1865
What was ratified in 1865?
300
Vicksburg, Mississippi at the time of the Battle of Getysburg
Where was another battle going on at the same time as the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
Many Confederate ships sailing to the Southern ports to prevent the South from getting supplies
Who were the Blockade Runners?
300
They wanted to get control over the Mississippi River
What was the main goal of the North in the West?
400
The confederate Congress passed a draft which made men who were between the ages of 18 and 35 to serve in the army for 3 years.
What happened in April 1862?
400
This word means free and Lincoln wanted to free the enslaved African Americans in the South, so he waited for the right time.
What does emancipate mean?
400
Where did Sally Tompkins, a woman who disapproved of the men who said that women cannot do anything, establish a hospital for soldiers?
Richmond, Virginia
400
They were the Union’s 187,000 soldiers
Who were the Yankees?
400
The women in Washington D.C, but some of them were spies.
Who aided, entertained, clothed, and took care of the troops while they could not go to war?
500
The Union and Confederacy armies fought at the Battle of Antietam on this day
What happened on September 17, 1862?
500
The 20,000 people in both armies who were wounded or killed in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862
What are casualties?
500
It was a Union warship that Northern forces had abandoned when the Confederate forces seized the naval shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia
Where and what was the Merrimack?
500
George B. McClellan was appointed by Lincoln over all the other armies of the general
Who was the head of the army of the East Union?
500
He wanted to clarify the status of the fugitive slaves, solve the Union's manpower woes, keep Great Britain out of the conflict, and disregard slavery
What were President Lincoln’s reasons for issuing the Emancipating Proclamation?