Civil War 1
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
What are two out the five border states that stayed with the Union but had slaves?
What are Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia?
The Union attempted to cut off Confederate ports, this is the Confederate response.
Turning the Merrimack into an ironclad ship.
This Union ship was the first completely iron warship.
What is the Monitor?
Perhaps the most important border state, due to it’s proximity to Washington, D.C.
What is Maryland?
The general (leader) of the Confederate Army.
Who is General Robert E. Lee
Group of people opposed to slavery
What are abolitionists?
This event kicked off the Civil War with the first shots fired here
What was the attack on Fort Sumter?
This was the bloodiest DAY in the Civil War.
What is Antietam (the first of only two Confederate invasions of the North).
This person gave this speech: “. . . That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom. . . .”
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The South's ultimate goal was this.
Recognition as an independent country.
The President of the Union forces
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were henceforward free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This side in the Civil War had a larger military and resources.
What is the Union?
Abolitionist whose goal was to steal guns and arm enslaved people so they could fight for their freedom. He was captured and executed (this is right before the Civil War)?
John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry
This was the first state to secede from the Union (and also fired on Ft. Sumpter).
What is South Carolina?
Who was elected President of the United States in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
Capitol of the Union.
What is Washington, D.C.?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where?
What are states currently that allowed slavery.
This side in the Civil War had better military leaders and only had to defend their territory.
What is the Confederacy?
The main goal of this side was to keep the United States together by force.
What is the Union?
First and only President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The first submarine was called this.
What is the Hunley?
Capitol of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
This plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate coast, capture and control the Mississippi River, and capture Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The Confederates wanted help from these two countries (who needed their cotton)? They never got the help.
What are Britain and France?
States that supported the Union and did not join the Confederacy despite being slave states.
Border States
Shortly after a union victory at this location Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Where is Antietam?
What is the belief that states should have the right to ignore any federal, or national law, they did not like?
state's rights