17.1 Two Sides
This vocabulary word means a formal withdrawal of a state or region from a larger country or government
What is succession?
a soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in battle
What is a casualty?
The legal right that protects people from being jailed without being charged or given a trial (Lincoln suspended this during the war)
What is habeas corpus?
The bravery of this African American regiment at Fort Wagner helped prove Black soldiers could fight courageously and effectively in combat.
What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
Ratified in 1865, this amendment officially abolished slavery throughout the United States.
What was the 13th Amendment?
At the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln’s main goal was not immediately ending slavery, but achieving this.
What was preserving the Union?
This major wartime document only freed enslaved people in Confederate states rebelling against the Union.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This region experienced the worst economic collapse during the Civil War due to destroyed farms, railroads, cities, and trade systems.
What was the South?
This battle is considered General Robert E. Lee's greatest victory because his army defeated a Union army that was nearly twice its size.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville
Grant’s respectful surrender terms at Appomattox Court House suggested he hoped for this after the war.
What was peaceful reunification between North and South?
This Union military strategy focused on blockading Southern ports and controlling major rivers to slowly squeeze the Confederacy.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This naval battle between two ironclad ships changed the future of naval warfare.
What was the battle between the Monitor and the Virginia?
Most deaths in Civil War prisons and hospitals were caused not by bullets, but by this problem connected to overcrowding and poor sanitation.
What was disease?
Sherman’s March to the Sea reflected “total war” because Union troops destroyed these things to weaken the South’s economy and morale.
What were railroads, crops, factories, and supplies?
Reconstruction was expected to be difficult because Americans strongly disagreed about rebuilding the South and this issue.
What were the rights of freed African Americans?
One major advantage helped the North outlast the Confederacy by giving it more soldiers, factories, railroads, and supplies.
What was the North’s larger population and greater resources?
After victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, this Union general became famous for demanding “unconditional surrender.”
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
These Northern Democrats believed the Civil War should end through immediate negotiation and reunion instead of continued fighting.
Who were the Copperheads?
Lincoln often became frustrated with Union generals in the East because they repeatedly failed to do this against Confederate armies.
What was aggressively attack Confederate forces?
This long Union campaign forced Lee to abandon Richmond after Confederate supply lines were cut off.
What was the Siege of Petersburg?
This group of slave states stayed loyal to the Union and was considered strategically important because of key transportation routes, important rivers, and their location around Washington, D.C.
What were the border states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri?
Despite having fewer soldiers, Confederate armies won many battles in the East because of strong leadership, knowledge of terrain, and this.
What were effective military strategies?
Many civilians became refugees during the Civil War because this happened to their homes and towns.
What was destruction caused by fighting?
In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln emphasized that this type of government must survive the Civil War.
What was democracy/self-government?
This is one reason Lincoln's reelection in 1864 was important to the future of the war