Key Terms
A writ or legal action that requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into a court so it might examine the reasons for imprisonment.
What is habeas corpus?
The bloodiest battle of the war and the turning point of the Civil War.
Lincoln issues the the Preliminary Emancipation.
What is September 22, 1862?
American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The proclamation changed the character of the war and made it about freeing slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Compulsory enlistment into the armed forces.
What is conscription?
What is Vicksburg?
Lee surrenders to Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse.
What is April 9, 1865?
Lieut. General in command over the entire U.S. Army. as of March 1864.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
What are the border slave states that stayed in the Union?
General Winfield Scott's "anaconda" strategy to cut off the South's trade with Europe and eventually starve the Confederates into submission.
The first major battle of the Civil War during which the Rebels routed the Federals with the rebel yell, and General "Stonewall" Jackson earned his nickname.
What is the first Battle of Bull Run?
John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford's Theater in Washington.
What is April 14, 1865?
Commander of the Army of Northern VA.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Lincoln's first task of the war.
What is to secure the border states?
War waged on civilians as well as the military.
What is total war?
An indecisive victory for the North that ended Lee's invasion of Maryland. After this battle, Abraham Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)?
What is November 19, 1863?
The general who was one of the most skillful tacticians in the Confederate Army.
Who is "Stonewall" Jackson?
The North's greatest asset in the war.
What is its Navy?
The name given to northerners who favored letting the southern states go their own way and who were said to sympathize with the cause of the South.
The battle that crippled the Confederate war effort and began Sherman's destructive march to the sea
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
Virginia secedes from the union and Confederate government moves from Montgomery, AL to Richmond, VA.
What is April 17, 1861?
The Federal general who captured Atlanta and Savannah in GA and Columbia, S.C.
Who is General Sherman?
The South's greatest assets in the war.
What are the spirit of its men and its commanding officers?