Important Battles
First Shots of The Civil War
Fort Sumter
Republican President of United States elected in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Plan to Blockade South on the Atlantic and Gulf
Anaconda Plan
Number one cause of death in Civil War
Disease
Union
Battle that Prompted the Emancipation Proclamation
Antietam
President of The Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Plan to seek foreign aid through cotton profits
Cotton Diplomacy
all black formation of nearly 180,000 soldiers
54th Massachusetts regiment
Name TWO border states
Battle with most casualties during entirety of war
Gettysburg
General of The Confederate Army
Robert E Lee
Term for forcing people into military service
conscription
Roles held by women during war
Nurses, Farm Managers, Ran Family Businesses
Term used to describe increase in prices of goods in Confederacy during the war
Inflation
Battle that secured Union control over Mississippi River
Vicksburg
General of Union Army
Ulysses S Grant
250 mile march to capture Savannah, GA
Sherman's March to the Sea
Total number of deaths during Civil War
750,000
Period immediately following the Civil War
Reconstruction
Last Battle of War in Petersburg VA
Battle of Five Forks
Vice President of Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Location of Surrender on April 9, 1865
Appomattox Court House
Created during Civil War and led to creating the nursing career
United States Sanitary Commission
"No we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure"
This quote comes from which speech?
Gettysburg Address