Strategy
Plan to encircle the South.
Anaconda Plan
This persons election led to South Carolina seceding.
Abe Lincoln
This side had almost every advantage in the war?
Union
Battle that started the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Lincoln created this document declaring that all the slaves were free.
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the main strategy of the South.
Make the war so painful that the North would just quit and let the south secede.
Two Generals involved in the final surrender.
Lee and Grant
Famous speech made by Lincoln after the wars bloodiest battle.
Gettysburg Address
Bloodiest battle of the war, it lasted 3 days.
Gettysburg
This was where the Lee surrendered to Grant?
Appomattox Courthouse
Gaining control of this waterway would be critical.
Mississippi River
This person convinced Lincoln to allow the escaped slaves to fight?
Frederick Douglas
Two advantages for the North of slaves escaping due to the Emancipation Proclamation?
1.) Used up Southern resources
2.) Freed slaves could join the Union Army
This victory gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
Original Capital of the South?
Richmond, VA
Taking this port on Sherman's march to the sea would allow the North to move troops and supplies.
Savannah, GA
President of the Confederate states?
Jefferson Davis
The most famous battles of the iron clad ships, the Monitor and the Merrimack?
Battle of Hampton Roads
These two battles ended with Union victories within 24 hours of each other. These battles marked the turning of the tide in favor of the war to the North, what were the two battles?
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
This battle ravaged the South with a scorched earth campaign, that included burning down Atlanta and Columbia, SC?
Sherman's march to the sea
Strategy that included destroying railroad ties. The Union heated up the rails and bent them into bows that were called?
Sherman's neckties (or bow ties)
Who was Lee's right hand man and who was Grant's right hand man
Lee- Stonewall Jackson
Grant- William T. Sherman
The legacy of the Civil War is that it ended slavery and established the supremacy of?
The Federal government
The only two advantages that the South was considered to have.
Better military leadership and familiarity with the land.
List the 3 amendments that gave the freed slaves rights and an explanation of each.
13th- End slavery
14th- Provided citizenship
15th- Gave vote to black men