CAUSES OF THE WAR
The main disagreement that sparked the Civil War
slavery
The winner of the 1860 presidential election
Abraham Lincoln
Words for the USA
Union, North, Blue, Yankees
The Emancipation Proclamation
abolition of slavery after Union victory at Battle of Antietam
The country that won the war
The Union
The territory in favor of slavery, turned Confederate States of America, during the Civil War (North or South)
The South
The first state to secede from the Union as a result of the election
South Carolina
Words for the CSA
Confederacy, South, Gray, Rebels
It declared slaves free in the Confederate states. (True or False)
True
The last southern attack
Gettysburg
The president elect that drove the South to leave the Union
Lincoln
The president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
One northern strength
Factory production
railroad miles
established navy
representative functioning government
recognition from European nations
Militia Act
The location Lee surrendered at
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
The other main disagreement that started the Civil War (not slavery)
economics
Capital of the Confederate States
Richmond, Virginia
War strategy of the North
The Anaconda Plan: Blockade Southern ports w/ its navy and gain control of the Mississippi River to split Confederacy in two
The person who led the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment
Robert Gould Shaw
The person that assassinated Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
The 11 states that succeeded from the Union
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina
Jefferson Davis's political role before becoming the president of CSA
Senator of Mississippi
War strategy of South
Planned a long war to erode the Union's resources and morale
The battle the Emancipation Proclamation was announced after
Battle of Antietam
The total death toll of both the Union and Confederacy
620,000 American deaths
360,000 Union deaths
260,000 Confederate deaths