The War Begins
These were the border states (5).
What were Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia?
It was the first major battle of the Civil War
What is the 1st Battle of Bull Run/Manassas?
He captured New Orleans.
Who is David Farragut?
How women served during the Civil War.
What is took care of sick and wounded soldiers?
An example of total war.
What is destroying anything of economic value; railways and bridges?
The event that started the Civil War.
What is states in the South seceded?
Importance of the battle between the Merrimack and Monitor.
What is it was the first time ironclads fought each other?
Reason Vicksburg's capture was important to the Union Strategy.
What is it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?
These were Northerners who supported the Confederacy.
Who are Copperheads?
Place General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The Union and Confederacy had many strengths and weaknesses going into the Civil War. Give a strength each side had at the start of the war.
Union = population, industrial manufacturing, transportation.
Confederacy = military tradition, food, know the terrain.
It was a major Union victory and the deadliest day in American history.
What is Antietam?
The river that the Union forces were fighting to control.
What is The Mississippi River?
To prevent those from speaking out against the war President Lincoln suspended what US Constitutional right?
What is Habeas Corpus?
President Lincoln is best remembered for a speech that honored fallen soldiers and renewed commitment to the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The Northern Strategy (Anaconda Plan).
The Southern Strategy.
What is to blockade Southern ports and capture the Mississippi River to divide the South?
What is to win foreign allies with their cotton diplomacy, go on the defensive?
This killed more people than deaths on the battle field.
What is disease caused approximately 2/3 of all deaths?
He was in charge of the western campaign for the Union. Also, what was his strategy style?
The Battle of Antietam gave President Lincoln the victory he needed to issue this.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He led the march to the sea where total war was employed.
Who is General Sherman?
The capture of this by the Confederacy started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This made ironclads so revolutionary.
What is their hulls were heavily armored?
The Battle of Shiloh was US Grant's first major victory and led to the US having greater control over...
What is the Mississippi River (valley)?
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry is remembered as...
What is one of the first and most famous African American regiments of the Civil War that fought at Fort Wagner, SC?
After the Battle of Gettysburg, which was a turning point in the Civil War, this man would never invade the North again.
Who is Lee?