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President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln
Two of the North's biggest strengths?
Resources & Factories
What is the definition of political?
Having to do with government, laws, and leaders.
First major battle of the Civil War where civilians brought picnics to watch.
Battle of Bull Run
What is a freedman?
Man or woman who was freed from enslavement after the Civil War.
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
South's biggest strength?
Home Court Advantage- or knowing the land they were fighting on.
Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Bloodiest Day in American History
Battle of Antietam
How many soldiers died in the Civil War?
About 620,000
Leader of the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
North's Military Strategy Name
The Great Snake Plan
New law requireing ALL CITIZENS to help catch African Americans trying to escape slavery.
Fugitive Slave Law
A battle of mass chaos where the Union lost but Confederate General Andrew Jackson was shot and killed by his own men.
Battle of Chancellorsville.
An escaped slave who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War
Fredrick Douglass
Sideburns are named after him.
Ambrose Burnside
What were the three parts of the North's snake plan?
1. Get the capital.
2. Gain control of the ports.
3. Gain control of the Mississippi.
What is a system of oppression? Give a definition and example.
A system that affects one group of people in a negative way.
Slavery
3 Day battle that included Pickett's charge, which resulted in a devastating Confederate loss.
Battle of Gettysburg
Who was Mary Bowser?
Mary Elizabeth Bowser was a former slave who operated as a spy for the Union while working on the household staff at the Confederate White House.
Nurse in the Civil War- Founder of the Red Cross
Clara Barton
What was the failed portion of the South's military plan?
Depend on Europe for money and resources.
The compromise that made Maine into a free state and declared that any state under the 36 30 line would be a slave state.
1820 Missouri Compromise
Battle where General Grant (Union) gained control of the Mississippi.
Battle of Shiloh
What is Juneteenth?
Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, a Union General rode into Galveston, Texas to announce that the Civil War had ended, and slaves had been freed.