Events
When the Union found Lee's battle plans, they were wrapped around this item.
Lee's Cigars
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in these areas.
States at war with the Union.
This was the capital of the Union.
Washington D.C.
These two countries were on the fence about aiding the Confederacy.
France and Britain
This person was president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis.
This event began the war.
The Siege of Fort Sumter.
Lincoln imposed martial law to hold on to this region.
The border states.
The North contained this percentage of the total amount of factories in the United States.
90%
Britain offered to buy all of the South's cotton so long as they did this.
Freed their slaves.
The Western Theater was mostly concerned with taking/defending this river.
The Mississippi
This person assassinated President Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
Lincoln jailed hundreds of suspected Confederate sympathizers without this right.
Habeas Corpus
The North's population was roughly how much?
22 million
The South contained roughly this many slaves.
3 million
This side of the war won both battles of Bull Run
The Confederacy
This was the single bloodiest battle of the war.
Antietam/Sharpsburg
This event ended with the freeing of two Confederate diplomats and Lincoln stating, "one war at a time."
The Trent Affair
Name one of the Union generals that fell victim to the South's winning streak at the beginning of the war.
McClellen, Pope, Burnside, Hooker
The South's population was roughly this much.
9 million
The taking of the Mississippi River isolated these two Confederate states.
Texas and Arkansas
This was the final battle in which the South invaded the North.
Gettysburg
The loss of this battle ensured that the British would not recognize or aid the Confederacy.
Gettysburg
It was this that battle that Gen. Grant, "gave up on the idea of saving the Union except by complete conquest."
Shiloh
This caused the secession of the "upper" South.
Lincoln's demand for 75,000 volunteers.
The capitals of the opposing sides were roughly this far apart.
100 miles