Battles
What is Fort Sumter?
This was a strategy to get Europe on their side by keeping cotton
What was King Cotton Diplomacy
Perhaps the biggest southern advantage
Who was Robert E. Lee
The bloodiest single day battle
What was the battle of Antietam
This was a strategy to hold a blockade to keep trade from happening
What was the Union Blockade / Anaconda Plan
The order that freed slaves in the Confederacy
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Chosen to lead the Union's Army of the Potomac
The bloodiest battle outright
What was the battle of Gettysburg?
This was a 2 minute speech at the site of the bloodiest battle of the civil war
This was where union prisoners of war were kept
What was Andersonville Prison?
Nicknamed "The Creeper"
Who was George McClellan?
The taking, and eventual burning of a major confederate railroad hub
What was Sherman's Atlanta Campaign
The destruction of half of Georgia, and gave Savannah to Lincoln as a "Christmas Gift", as well as splitting the confederacy in half.
What was Sherman's March to the Sea
Where Lee surrendered
What is Appomattox Courthouse
The general who burned Atlanta and marched to the sea
Who was William T. Sherman
This battle took place just south of the Tennessee-Georgia border
What was Chickamauga?