Fighting for?
To keep the country united, end slavery
Fighting for
Continuation of slavery, southern autonomy
The person who killed Abraham Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
Confederacy existed from:
1861 to 1865
Were the Confederate defensive or offensive
What color clothes did they wear?
Blue
What color clothes did they wear?
Grey
Was a general. Surrendered all confederate forces.
Robert E. Lee
True or false. There are still state flags featuring Confederate symbology.
True, there are several
Who had a larger population
The Union
Union president
Abraham Lincoln
Wanted alliance with who?
British and French
President of the Confederacy. Wanted to be a general.
Jefferson Davis
Known as the most important battle of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Who had more resources
The Union
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?
Abraham Lincoln
Used what kind of strategy during the war
Guerrilla warfare
How many enslaved people did they have?
3.5 million
What did they have to use to receive supplies from the water
Blockade runners
Who had more skilled troops over all
The Confederacy
How many states were in the Union?
How many states were in the Confederacy?
11
Confederate tactical genius
Stonewall Jackson
Capital location
Montgomery, Alabama, later moved to Richmond, Virginia
Where were 7/8of the major military colleges
The south