Events
Lincoln's assassin
John Wilkes Booth
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War (July 1-3, 1863).
Gettysburg
Won the nickname "Unconditional Surrender"
Grant
Required military service
Draft
The first state to secede
South Carolina
He won re-election in 1864.
Lincoln
The single bloodiest day of the war; Union victory that led to Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
His victories include Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville; defeated McClellan in the Peninsula Campaign.
Lee
Emergency military rule
Martial Law
The Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery
13th
This man ran to be Lincoln's Vice-President in 1864.
Andrew Johnson
The first major battle of the Civil War.
First Bull Run
Northern Peace Democrats
Copperheads
Emancipation Proclamation
Name one of the first two ironclads
Monitor, Merrimack
The bombardment of this fort started the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
The Union gained possession of the Mississippi River after the siege of this city.
Vicksburg
The number of soldiers who were killed in the Civil War
620,000
The Union Plan to win the war by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
Anaconda Plan
One Union advantage in the Civil War
more people, more factories, more railroads
In 1864, this Union General ran against Abraham Lincoln.
George B. McClellan
A costly Union victory in Tennessee (1862).
Shiloh
Jefferson Davis
Legal protection requiring courts to determine if a person is lawfully imprisoned.
Writ of Habeas Corpus
The place OR the date Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant
Appomattox Courthouse; April 9, 1865