Definitions
Someone who supported the South during the Civil War.
What is a Confederate?
The event that started the Civil War.
What is the Bombardment of Fort Sumter?
Abraham Lincoln's most famous speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
To leave the Union.
What was the South's war goal during the Civil War?
To block all access to a place, usually by sea.
What is a blockade?
The first major battle of the Civil War. It was won by the Confederacy.
What was the Battle of 1st Bull Run?
Who specifically did the Emancipation Proclamation free?
Slaves in the currently rebelling states.
To preserve the Union and end slavery.
What was the North's war goal starting in 1863?
Freeing someone from slavery.
What is emancipation?
Document declaring the slaves in rebelling territories would be free. Made after the Union victory at Antietam.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Speech calling for "malic toward none; and with charity for all."
Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
The Anaconda Plan.
What was the name of the plan to blockade the South, seize the Mississippi River, and then crush the South from all sides?
To require people to join the military.
What is the draft?
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War, and often seen as the turning point of the war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
"Sic semper tyrannis."
What did John Wilkes Booth say after shooting Abraham Lincoln?
What was Sherman's March to the Sea and why did he do it?
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The main objectives a nation wants to achieve through fighting a war.
What are war goals?
Final campaign in the east during the Civil War. Characterized by high casualties on both sides.
What was Grant's Overland Campaign?
Around how many blacks served in the American military during the Civil War?
200,000
Robert E Lee invaded the North in 1863 to?
Pull pressure away from the siege of Vicksburg by seizing Washington D.C. and then trying to force the North to end the war.