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This person was President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
Which side of the Civil War were called the Confederacy?
The Southern states that seceded from the United States
What is total war?
A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued
Who won the civil war?
Union
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Declared that slaves in the confederate states were free
The Civil War took place in what 4 year span?
1861-1865
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Confederacy General
What was the main goal of the Union when the Civil War started?
To reunite/preserve the states in a Union.
What battle is considered the "turning point" of the war?
the Battle of Gettysburg
How did Southerners view tariffs?
Southerners opposed tariffs because they believed tariffs would scare off foreign buyers of their goods and make the imported goods they needed more expensive.
Which event was the "final straw" causing South Carolina, then other states from the south to secede?
The election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860
This person was general of the Union army at the end of the Civil War?
Ulysses S Grant
Who is Jefferson Davis?
President of the Confederacy
What were 2 strategies of the Union during the Civil War?
Invade Confederacy and break their will to fight.
Gain alliance from Border States
Create naval blockade that covered 3,500 miles of coastline.
Prevent Europe from recognizing the Confederacy.
What marked the beginning of the Civil War?
the attack on Fort Sumter
What were some reasons the South wanted to keep slavery?
Economic benefits.
What is an abolitionist?
A person who wants slaves to be freed.
What happened to the President of the North at the end of the civil war?
He was assasinated by John Wilkes Booth
claimed that he became a free person when his slave owner took him across the Missouri Compromise line
Dred Scott
What was the biggest Southern advantage?
It was did not have to attack the North, only defend their territory.
This was the bloodiest day of the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
This General surrendered his army at the Appomattox Court House to General Ulysses S. Grant
General Robert E. Lee
What does the term popular sovereignty mean during the Civil War?
Which battle did General Ulysses S. Grant invades Tennessee?
Shiloh
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which exposed the cruelties of slavery to Northerners
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was the greatest advantage of the Union?
Abundant natural resources and manufacturing
What was the first great battle of the Civil War?
the Battle of Bull Run
General William Sherman's March to the Sea which included the destruction of Southern cities ended in which state?
South Carolina - the first state to secede from the Union
What does secede mean?
to break away from, to remove oneselve
In which speech did President Lincoln state that the Civil War was necessary to preserve the Union and that America was one nation, not a collection of individual states?
Gettysburg Address