War Begins
This event officially started the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
The Union’s main goal at the start of the war.
What is to preserve the Union?
Union general who captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These new ships were covered in iron instead of wood.
What are ironclads?
Lincoln issued this on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This formerly enslaved man became a famous abolitionist speaker and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This state was the location of Fort Sumter.
What is South Carolina?
The Union strategy to defeat the South was called this.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This battle resulted in over 23,000 casualties and a Union victory after reinforcements arrived.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
The famous ironclad battle was between the USS Monitor and this Confederate ship.
What is the CSS Merrimack?
The battle that gave Lincoln the opportunity to announce emancipation.
What is Antietam?
This election in 1860 led several Southern states to secede.
What is Abraham Lincoln’s election?
This battle was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
the first goal of the Anaconda Plan was to block Southern _____.
What are ports?
The bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
What is Antietam?
This new bullet made rifles more deadly.
What is the minie ball?
The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to states in this condition.
What are states in rebellion (Confederate states)?
This abolitionist newspaper was published by* William Lloyd Garrison.
What is The Liberator?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The North had about this percentage of the nation’s industry.
What is 90%?
After Antietam, this Union general failed to aggressively pursue Lee.
Who is George McClellan?
These new weapons increased the need for trenches and defensive fighting.
What are rifles?
One foreign country Lincoln hoped to prevent from helping the South.
What is Great Britain?
The first seven states to leave the Union did this action.
What is secede?
This Confederate general earned the nickname “Stonewall.”
Who is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson?
The South mostly fought this type of war.
What is a defensive war?
The Confederacy invaded this border state hoping for European recognition.
What is Maryland?
Union naval leader who captured New Orleans.
Who is David Farragut?
Although it did not immediately free many slaves, it gave the war this higher purpose.
What is a moral purpose (ending slavery)?
This violent 1859 raid on a federal arsenal was led by* John Brown*.
What is the raid on Harpers Ferry?