People
President of the Union
Assassinated
16th US President
Abraham Lincoln
Led the Union March from Atlanta to the Sea
William T Sherman
Bloodiest Day of the Civil War
Robert G. Shaw fought here (Glory)
Battle of Antietam
Required military service
Draft
What side of the Civil War fought for states rights and slavery?
What is the Confederacy
President of the Confederate States of America
Lived in Biloxi, Mississippi
Who is Jefferson Davis
Begins the Civil War
Battle of Ft. Sumter
Bloodiest Battle of the Civil War
Forced the Confederacy back in to the South
Battle of Gettysburg
Type of warfare where a country will use all resources to win?
Example: Sherman's March to the Sea
Total War
Which city was burned and destroyed during Sherman’s March to the Sea
Atlanta, GA
General and Leader of the Confederate Army
Ended slavery in Confederate states
Allowed African Americans to fight for the Union
Tied issue of slavery directly to the war
Emancipation Proclamation
Total war - destroyed everything (resources, transportation, communication)
Goes from Western side of Georgia to the Atlantic coast
Sherman's March to Sea
Type of warfare where a country will primarily defend their side?
Defensive War
The battle that split the South in half and secured the Mississippi River for the Union
Vicksburg
General and eventual Leader of the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant
First Battle of the Civil War
Battle of Bull Run
Union START to gain control of the Mississippi River
Battle of Shiloh
To officially remove yourself from a country
Secession/ Secede
The word Emancipate means to…
Free
Strong and successful Confederate general
Died from friendly fire
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
General Lee of the Confederacy surrenders to General Grant of the Union Army
Ends the Civil War
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Stonewall Jackson killed
Lee’s greatest battle
Battle of Chancellorsville
What side of the Civil War fought to preserve the Union and eventually fight to free the enslaved
Union
Who wrote the book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which heavily influenced public opinion of slavery?
Harriet Beecher Stowe