Civil War 1
This attack marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
A war between two groups or regions within a nation.
What is a civil war?
These soldiers often wore gray.
What is the Confederates?
These soldiers often wore blue.
What is Union soldiers?
These three events caused tension between the North and South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin, Dred Scott decision, and John Brown's raid.
This many southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy.
What is Eleven?
This many northern states were in the Union.
What is Twenty-four?
This many slave states stayed in the Union.
Four
Slave states that stayed in the Union.
What is border states.
The North's population.
What is 22 million?
The South's population during the Civil War.
What is nine million?
The North's advantages in the Civil War.
What is more factories for making weapons, supplies, and railroad lines.
The South's advantages.
What is defending familiar land and excellent leaders?
The Union leaders strategy to defeat the South.
What is block the seaports for trading, take control of the Mississippi River, and attack from the East and West at the same time?
The South's strategy to win the Civil War.
What is fight off the Union until they could survive as a separate nation, hoping the Union would just give up, and hoped for help from Britain and France?
The winner of the First Battle of Bull Run.
What is the Confederates?
The general of the Confederate army in Virginia.
Who is General Robert E. Lee?
The winner at the Battle of Antietam.
What is the Union Army?
The deadliest day of the Civil War that lost 22,000 casualties.
What is the Battle of Antietam? (an TEE tam)
Defeated a large Confederate army at the Battle of Shiloh.
Who is General Ulysses S. Grant?
The process the government does to select people to serve in the military.
What is the draft?
The freeing of enslaved people.
What is an Emancipation?
Put the Emancipation Proclamation into effect that made it into a war to end slavery in the South.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Union victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg.
What is the turning point of the Civil War?
The speech is famous as a powerful statement about the purpose of the Civil War.
What is known as Abe Lincoln's Gettysburg Address?