People & Economies
The President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
Secede
The tactic which called for the destruction of the enemy’s resources such as animals, supplies, railroads, and factories. What was this?
Total War/Scorched Earth
What were the two sides in the civil war? What were they called and what were the colors of their uniforms?
North: Union. United States of America, Blue Uniforms
South: Confederacy, Confederates states of America, Grey Uniforms.
What battle was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
This woman was one of the main conductors of the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
What was 1 of the 3 failed compromises on slavery before the civil war?
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas)
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
What year dates are the Civil War?
1861-1865
Battle with the most casualties in the civil war? (nearly 50,000) Was a turning point in the war, Union started to win after this terrible battle.
Gettysburg
Top Union General who was successful in defeating the Confederates using his war of attrition strategy.
Ulysses S. Grant
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves that lived where? Why did it not free all of the slaves?
Slave states in the Confederacy.
Lincoln did not have that power and didn't want to lose the boarder states.
What were two Northern Advantages in the war?
What are a larger population, more supplies/resources; industrialization, more railroads and telegraphs, much larger navy, more food and money. Eventually better strategies, leaders, and Generals,
Who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Final large battle of the civil war. Place where Lee surrendered to Grant, effectively ending the civil war.
Appomattox Court House
Union General who did a "March to the Sea" in Georgia to cut the Confederacy in half and destroy their supplies.
General William "Tecumseh" Sherman
What were the 3 steps of the North's Anaconda Plan
Control the Mississippi River
Blockade Southern ports
The first official battle of the Civil War
Bull Run/Manassas
Who was considered the "Angel of the Battlefield"?
Clara Barton
Shortly after a union victory at this location Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
Name differences between the North and South economies before the civil war
North: Industrialized, urbanized, more immigrants, banned slavery, lots of immigrants, more diverse, more people, more money, more factories, more food,
South: Agricultural, lots of slavery, relied on trade with other countries for their supplies, mostly cash crops like cotton and tobacco, much smaller population,
First shots of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Name 2 inventions around the time of the civil war that were used in the war?
Ironclad ships, Hot Air Balloons, Telegraph, Railroad, submarines, Repeating Rifles, Minie balls (Rifled Bullets), Photography, Morphine, Embalming Fluid, Gatling Gun (first Machine Gun), Improved artillery with exploding shells
Name two reasons for the Civil War
the differences in geography and the different economies of the North/South; the issue over states' rights; the issue of slavery; the Missouri Compromise; Bleeding Kansas; John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry; the Election of 1860.
Name a civil war battle that did NOT take place in Maryland, Virgina, or Pennsylvania.
Fort Donelson, Vicksburg, Atlanta, Savanna, Fort Sumter, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Fort Wagner, Shiloh