The War Begins (Ch. 16 Sec 1)
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
What was the first major battle of the Civil War & who won?
First Battle of Bull Run, Confederates
What did Lincoln issue which freed the slaves in the Confederate states? (yup you read that right, only in the Confederate states - which he did not control)
Emancipation Proclamation
The Battle of Gettysburg finally turned the tide against which side?
The Confederates
Which amendment made slavery illegal in the US?
13th Amendment
Which border states - which did allow slavery - chose not to secede and stay with the Union. Name at least 1.
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri
Which was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War? 12,000 casualties on the Union side, 13,000 for the Confederates. This is more than deaths of all Americans in the American Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican-American War combined!
Battle of Antietam
Who said, "Once let the black man get upon his person, the brass letters, US: ... and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, and there no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship." This encouraged Black men to join the union army.
Frederick Douglass
What famous speech did Lincoln issue to show his renewed commitment to winning the Civil War? It begins "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
The Gettysburg Address
What did Union General Sherman want to give former slaves as compensation for their forced labor?
40 acres and a mule
One of the North's greatest advantages was about 13,000 miles more of what?
Railroad tracks
What type of ship did the Confederacy turn to to wage war at sea?
Ironclads
Drums (Drummers)
Union General Sherman had a policy during his March to the Sea that had his troops destroy civilian and economic resources - including burning plantations, freeing slaves, and destroying railways and bridges. What was this policy called?
Total War
What was the period of Reconstruction?
Years after the Civil War where they rebuilt and readmitted the former Confederate States to the Union
General Winfield Scott of the Union developed a two-part strategy to try to win the war. Part 1 was a naval blockade to destroy the Southern economy. What was Part 2?
Gain control of the Mississippi River
Which Union General led the way to victory in the "west" (Mississippi, Louisiana, etc)
Ulysses S. Grant
Nearly twice as many soldiers died due to what as they died in combat?
Disease
Where did General Lee (Confederate) surrender to General Grant (Union), thus ending the Civil War?
Appomattox Courthouse
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Agency providing relief for freed people and poor people in the South
What advantages did the South have in the war? (Name at least 2)
Many brilliant military officers, Food from southern farms, North had to travel long distances and maintain those supply lines, Southern wilderness, home soil
What Southern city did the union cut off so completely that civials were forced to survive by eating horses, dogs, and rats
Vicksburg
Whose work on the battlefield and hospitals formed the basis for the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
About how many Americans lost their lives during the four years of fighting?
620,000
When Johnson was elected after Lincoln's assassination, he shocked Republicans by doing what?
Pardoning wealthy southerners and former Confederate officials (more than 7,000 people)