Union Strategies
This naval strategy aimed to "suffocate" the South by blocking ports.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The South's failed plan to use cotton exports to gain European allies.
What is King Cotton Diplomacy?
The April 1861 battle that sparked the Civil War (hint: SC location).
What is Fort Sumter?
The first state to secede from the Union in December 1860.
What is South Carolina?
Lincoln issued this document after Antietam to make the war about ending slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
General Sherman demonstrated this strategy by burning Atlanta and marching to Savannah.
What is Total War?
Robert E. Lee's risky 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania aimed at forcing Northern surrender.
What is the Gettysburg Campaign?
Bloodiest single-day battle (23,000 casualties) that led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
Union forces captured this SC coastal island in 1861, freeing enslaved people early.
What is Port Royal?
The fall of this city in 1864 ensured Lincoln's re-election and Union victory.
What is Atlanta?
The Union general who used "unconditional surrender" tactics at Fort Donelson and Vicksburg.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Confederate strategy of defending home soil to prolong the war and exhaust Union morale.
What is defensive warfare?
Lee's "high tide" defeat in July 1863 that ended Confederate invasions of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
Sherman's troops burned this SC capital in February 1865.
What is Columbia?
Lee's surrender location in April 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This 1863 battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
The Confederate ironclad ship that challenged Union naval dominance in 1862.
What is the CSS Virginia (Merrimack)?
Grant's 1864-65 campaign that pinned Lee's army in trenches around Richmond.
What is the Overland Campaign?
The Union blockade runner's nickname for Charleston due to its difficulty to penetrate.
What is "The Charleston Choke"?
The 1864 battle where Union casualties dwarfed Confederates but Grant refused to retreat.
What is Cold Harbor?
The Union's three-part strategy to win the war (blockade, Mississippi control, capture Richmond).
What is the "Scott's Great Snake" plan?
Jefferson Davis's controversial decision to impose this in 1862, angering Southern farmers.
What is the Confederate draft (Conscription Act)?
The two simultaneous Union victories (July 4, 1863) that marked the war's turning point.
What are Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
The percentage of SC's white male population killed in the war (highest of any state).
What is 25%?
The three key Union advantages (industrial capacity, population, railroads) that ultimately doomed the Confederacy.
What are resources, manpower, and infrastructure?