Advantages
This side had a large advantage in population which allowed for this.
What is the North and the ability to field larger armies?
Lincoln was the first President to do this without a declaration of war from Congress.
What is raise the army?
The border states struggled to decide which side to join for this reason.
What is they were Slave states that were close to the North?
Lincoln kept taking this action throughout the war for this reason.
What is replacing his generals because they kept losing?
The new usage of this method of transportation allowed for this.
What are railroads, which allowed for the quick movement of soldiers and supplies?
The South had this significant military advantage due to the Mexican-American war.
What is superiority in officers, particularly generals?
The 1863 Draft had this major immediate consequence.
What is the 1863 New York Draft Riot, the deadliest riot in US history?
General Winfield Scott came up with this plan to defeat the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan, which aimed to cut off Southern cotton exports with a naval blockade?
What is the North expected to win the war with a single battle, but was completely defeated?
The fight between the Monitor and Merrimac was significant for this reason.
What is it was the first battle between two ironclad warships, making all wooden ships obsolete?
List any three industrial advantages for the North.
What are advantages in iron, firearms, textiles, leather, food, shipping, and animals?
The 1863 Draft in the North was controversial for this reason.
What is it could be avoided with a $300 fine, which most Americans could not afford?
The South hoped to get British support using this leverage to gain this.
What are cotton exports and to even out the Northern industrial advantage?
Shiloh and Antietam both shocked the nation for this reason.
What is the high casualty rates, which were more than in any previous American war?
The Union created the Sanitary Commission led by Dorothea Dix to combat this cause of death.
What is disease, which was the leading cause of death in the war?
Southern soldiers had higher morale at the beginning of the war for this reason.
What is they had a stronger emotional goal of defending their home from invasion?
After the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln took this action which did this.
What is passed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed all of the slaves in the rebel states?
Both sides hoped to take the other's capital city for these two reasons.
What are causing chaos in the enemy government and breaking the enemy will to fight?
Grant gave these surrender terms to Lee for this reason.
What are lenient terms (parole for all officers and soldiers), in order to avoid a guerilla war?
General Sherman employed this new type of warfare in his march to the sea which included this.
What is Total War, which meant treating civilians as legitimate targets (destroying towns, farms, factories, and railroads)?
The South had this economic advantage over the North.
What are cotton exports to Europe which were necessary for British and French factories?
Describe Habeas Corpus and why its suspension was controversial.
Robert E. Lee invaded the North in 1862 and 1863 with these hopes.
What are to break the Northern will to fight, capture Northern cities, and convince the British to join the war?
Grant was finally able to defeat Lee through this strategy.
What is a war of attrition, holding Lee in the same place until he ran out of supplies and men?
The Siege of Petersburg saw this new style of fighting, replacing previous line infantry combat.
What is trench warfare?