Battles
This battle saw Robert E. Lee take control after Johnston was injured.
Battle of Antietam
This document claimed that Missouri would be a slave state, Maine a free state, and slavery banned north of Missouri’s southern border.
Missouri Compromise of 1850
He was president during the Civil War and served as the Union leader.
Abraham Lincoln
After the Civil War, federal power increased. What is one way this was achieved?
More power was given due to tax levying abilities and more control over individuals. These were imposed to stop any further attempts at succession.
The method of blockading the South and controlling the Mississippi River was called this.
The Anaconda Plan
The first actual bloodshed of the war, set the tone for the war.
The Battle of Bull Run
This compromise allowed California to enter as a free state in exchange for a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
Compromise of 1850
He ran against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 election.
George B. McClellan
The Civil War earned this nickname due to its use of advanced technologies.
The First Modern War
This was the new strategy for warfare introduced during the Civil War.
Total war
This battle marked the official start of the Civil War.
Attack on Fort Sumter
This compromise undid the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery north of the Missouri border.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
This man was the commander of all Union armies during the war.
Ulysses S. Grant
How many soldiers across both sides perished?
Over 600,000 soldiers died. 360,000 on the Union side and 260,000 on the Confederate side.
Weapons in the Civil War were more destructive for this reason.
The rifle and modernized bullets.
This battle shifted momentum to the South and led to the Battle of Gettysburg.
Battle of Chancellorsville
This document declared that all persons held as slaves in rebel states ‘are, and henceforward shall be free,’ though it didn’t actually free all slaves.
Emancipation Proclamation
This Confederate general surrendered to the Union army leader, ending the war.
Robert E. Lee
This economy thrived after the war due to industrialization and innovation.
The North, due to the booming industrialization throughout the war and after. Less attacks on Northern land than Southern land as well.
This method allowed long-distance communication using wires.
The telegraph
This battle was the most impactful of the war, stopping Lee’s Northern invasion.
Battle of Gettysburg
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
The 13th Amendment
This Union general led troops in Mississippi and marched to the sea through Georgia.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This economy suffered after the war due to reliance on slave labor.
The South, due to destroyed land, equipment, and slavery being pushed to an end.
These durable ships could ram into others, changing naval warfare.
the ironclad ship