Important Leaders
Republican President of the Union; from Illinois; his election in 1861 prompted southern states to form the Confederacy and secede.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The Union had many more of these to produce soldiers' uniforms, shoes, weapons and other supplies.
What are factories?
They had to do this, on territory they were at home, literally in, instead of invade and take over the north.
What is defend their land from the Union?
This allowed for instant communication, was invented by Samuel Morse, the Union Army expanded this technology to cover 15,000 miles. President Lincoln used it constantly to get battle updates.
What is the telegraph?
The passage of this law as part of the Compromise of 1850 that allowed slave catchers and bounty hunters to go to free states and kidnap people they claimed had escaped to be brought back to slavery.
What was the fugitive slave act?
This northernmost battle of the Civil War, that happened in June, 1863 in a small town in southcentral Pennsylvania - was devasting in the number of casualties. Pickett's Charge was a bloodbath for the Confederacy.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
New Jersey
What is Union?
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The Union had 20,000 miles of these to transport supplies and troops, while the Confederacy only had about 9,000 miles of these.
What are railroad tracks?
This leadership was more experienced in warfare for the Confederacy, with Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson key to this.
Who were the Generals of the Army?
This was the type of ship utilized in the Civil War, the Union had more of them, and now they're powered by steam, not just wind.
What are ironclads?
In Kansas and Nebraska, this was introduced as the way to determine if they would become free or slave states. It stated the voters would decide. It led to undeclared warfare in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Union general led a march to the sea, destroying everything in their path useful to the Confederacy in between Atlanta to Charleston. He is still hated in the south.
Who was General William T. Sherman?
What is the Confederacy?
He was asked to lead the Union army, but felt greater loyalty to his home state of Virginia, and became the lead general of the Confederate Army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
This was far larger in the Union, allowing for far more available soldiers to fight in the war, especially recent Irish immigrants.
What is the population
Because the south was largely farms, at the start of the war they would have plenty of this to fuel their Confederate soldiers.
What was food?
This technology revolutionized transportation in the 19th century, with a Transcontinental ______________ that was being built during the time of the Civil War.
What are the railroads?
Pro slavery people believed that the federal government protected this practice, which was written in the Constitution.
What is slavery?
These became places filled with suffering on both sides, two of the deadliest, most horrific were Andersonville and Elmira. They were as deadly as the battlefields in many ways.
What are prisoner of war camps?
Kentucky.
What is a border state?
He would replace McClellan as the leader of the Union Army, particularly after his victory at Vicksburg. He was an abolitionist and future president.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
Once these soldiers were permitted to join the Union Army, many remarked that they fought more passionately because they were literally fighting for their freedom and lives. If they were captured by the Confederacy, it meant death or slavery.
Who were the African America aka Black or Colored Union Army Regiments, made up largely of free people of color and formerly enslaved people.
The southern states continued to trade for war supplies extensively with these two nations in support of their war efforts.
What are England and France?
The brutality and horrors of the Civil War were documented through this new technology (not action shots), but many of the dead after the battles.
What is photography?
This novel that depicted enslaved people as humans with actual emotions, who felt genuine sorrow, grief and joy was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and based upon the real lives and experiences of enslaved people. It is credited for fanning the flames of abolition and bringing the country closer to Civil War.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
What is amputations?
California.
What is Union?
This prominent abolitionist worked to allow African American men to serve in the Union Army; two of his sons served in African American regiments in the Civil War.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
They already had one of these established branches of the armed forces to fight on the coastlines and gain control of the rivers (especially the Mississippi).
What is a navy?
Many believed that since the Confederacy was fighting to maintain their way of life, they fought with more of this than many of the Union's soldiers.
What is passion and enthusiasm?
This technology would be created for soldiers remains to be identified.
What are dogtags?
This freed the enslaved people of the Confederacy (not the border states) and enraged the Confederate leaders that their human property was being legally stripped from them.
What was The Emancipation Proclamation?
President Lincoln gave this speech to honor the lives of ALL of the Americans who died at Gettysburg, but also to let it be known that they could not turn back and give up the fight to preserve the nation.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
Texas.
What is Confederate?