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President of the United States during the Civil War. AND president of the Confederacy.
Abraham Lincoln = Union
Jefferson Davis= Confederacy
On April 12, 1861 the first shot was fired of the Civil War
Fort Sumter, SC
What is total war?
Term refers to destroying both the civilian and economic resources of an enemy so they can’t possibly use those resources to help fight a war
Was slavery legal in Minnesota?
Nope- but Dred Scott and many others were enslaved on Minnesota soil.
What are the two sides of the Civil War and what were their uniform colors?
North/Union/United States- Blue
South/Rebels/Confederacy- Gray
Commander of the Confederate Army.
Robert E. Lee
This battle was the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
Control over which river was key to both the North and the South during the Civil War? Why?
The Mississippi River. Trade, communication, supply shipments, tactically
Ships that were armored heavily in iron, harder to sink; showed a great shift in naval warfare.
Capitals of the United States and the Confederacy during the Civil War?
US- Washington, D.C.
Confed- Richmond, VA
What made Robert E. Lee such an impressive general?
Graduate of West Point, he was willing to take risks and make unpredictable moves
The first major battle of the Civil War.
First Battle of Bull Run
How did the Siege of Vicksburg affect the South?
It demoralized them. It cut the western part of the South off from the east making the Confederacy considerably weaker.
What was the name of the United States' strategy to win the Civil War? What was one point of that plan?
Anaconda Plan; destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade, gain control of the Mississippi River, gain control of Richmond, VA
Where AND what year did the Civil War end?
Appomattox Courthouse, VA in early 1865
This person’s work in organizing the collection of medicine and supplies for Union soldiers
Clara Barton
Bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and or U.S. history.
Antietam
What was the President's main goal when he took office in 1861?
Bring the North and the South back together and keep the Union together
List the four border state. What made them border states?
MO, KY, ME, DE- they were slave states that did not join the Confederacy
What issue was being fought over during the Civil War?
Slavery.
Led the Union during their ‘March to the Sea’
William Tecumseh Sherman
Union would prevail and gain greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
Shiloh
Which military leader was in charge of blockading which port in hopes of stopping trade and hurting the Souths economy?
David Farragut at the port of New Orleans
How was the South's economy effect by the war? What effect did this have on future generations of Southerners?
It was devastated. It would cause resentment and anger for generation to come towards the North and African Americans.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation? How did it change the course of the War?
It was a document that free all the slaves in the states that were in rebellion (not those still apart of the US). It changed the war of simply about restoring the Union to one about ending slavery.