CIVIL WAR
What was the result of the 1860 election?
Lincoln barely wins
What plan does Winfield Scott propose to Lincoln for the war?
The Anaconda Plan
After South Carolina secedes and Jeff Davis becomes President of the Confederacy, who starts the civil war and where?
The Confederacy, Ft. Sumpter
Bloodiest battle of war so far, win for union, A.S. Johnson killed, shocks north and south, grant changes his strategies
What is Shiloh
What four slave states don't join the confederacy?
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri
Lee invades, needed supplies, 3 day battle, bloodiest of war, Lee’s army allowed to escape but never recovered, beginning of the end for Confederacy
What is Gettysburg
Why did the South think they'd get foreign support?
King Cotton Diplomacy
After his defeat at Vicksburg, Lee formally surrenders here to Grant
Appomattox Courthouse VA
What makes the Civil War the beginning of modern warfare?
RAILROADS, new artillery/other weapons, ironclad ships, spy balloons, submarine
After the Emancipation Proclamation was passed, were slaves in border states free or still enslaved?
Still enslaved, only freed slaves in areas in rebellion