Civil War People
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
Secede
South Carolina became the first state to do this in Dec. 1860
What is secession?
The Confederate hero who rallied the troops and led a decisive counterattack at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who was a.k. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
Place where Abraham Lincoln forced Stephen Douglass to admit that states would have to not "police" slavery to still exclude slavery using Popular Sovereignty after Dred Scott
What is Freeport IL and the Freeport Doctrine
Southern Advantages in the War
What is fighting defensive war, fighting with home-court advantage, has superior soldiers and counting on English intervention?
The Union general who later became President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
This event kicked off the Civil War
What was the PGT Beauregard's bombardment of Fort Sumter?
The Campaign where Sherman introduced his wartime strategy of total warfare
What is the Atlanta campaign and subsequent March to the Sea?
The second capital of the Confederacy
What is Richmond, VA?
Northern advantages in the war.
What are larger population, almost all the industry more railroads, and a superior navy?
He shouted "thus always to tyrants" after he shot the President.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
Term used for a group of Northerners (typically Democrats) in the Union who opposed the American Civil War.
Copperheads
Lincoln's November 1863 speech to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This 3 day battle in Pennsylvania is considered a major turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
The largest N-S river in the country whose capture became a key objective in Lincoln's victory strategy
What is the Mississippi River
General Winfield Scott's plan to blockade Southern ports so the Confederacy couldn't trade cotton for weapons.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
This declared all slaves still living in Confederate-controlled territory after January 1, 1863 would henceforth be free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Frederick Douglass advocated for passing this Amendment which ended slavery forever.
13th Amendment
Bloodiest SINGLE DAY battle in the war and "the" turning point battle of the war
What is the Battle of Antietam because it allowed Lincoln to issue his Emancipation Proclamation?
Sherman's March to the Sea ended in this city
What is Savannah, GA?
Events that happened on July 1, 1863 at the battle of Gettysburg
What is Union cavalry held off Lee's advancing army long enough for Union army to occupy high ground behind city?
An infamously cautious Union general; He was removed from his post after the Battle of Antietam
Who is General McClellan?
Term that refers to enemy property or people that is being used to conduct or sustain the enemy's war effort.
Contrabands
Book that first introduced many northerners to the horrors African Americans endured with slavery
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Grant's 1864 VA Strategy where he just used the Union's numerical superiority to bleed Lee's army to death
What is a War of Attrition?
Robert E. Lee surrendered here in April 1865
Where is Appomattox, VA?
Events that happened on July 2 at the Battle of Gettysburg
What is Lee attacked both ends of the Union line or fishhook holding high ground behind Gettysburg but again fails to win?
Union General most famously known for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Sherman?
Mandatory military service; this was put into place in the North and the South
What is a draft or conscription?
This event occurred in July 1863; Irish immigrants in a major city burned down government buildings and attacked free Black Americans
What were the 1863 Draft Riots?
This battle secured Union control of the Mississippi River
What is Grant's brilliant Vicksburg Campaign.
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, West Virginia and Delaware
What are slave states that remained in the union, or Border States?
Events that happened on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg
What is Lee orders Pickett to make disastrous charge on Union center that kills most of Lee's irreplaceable veteran troops?