Union vs Confederacy
They believed in State's Rights and the ability to govern their own affairs.
Who was the Confederacy
People who fought to end slavery.
Who were Abolitionists
This is the year Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
What is 1860
Site of the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter, SC?
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
What is the South?
Abraham Lincoln represented this side.
What is the Union
President Lincoln visited this battle site which prompted him to write the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antientam
the Civil War officially began when Confederate troops opened fire on Fort Sumter on this date.
What was 1861.
This name identified General Sherman's horrific strategy of burning and destroying Georgia towns and farms.
What is Hard War/Total War/Scorched Earth?
This state was the focal point of the Confederacy.
What is Georgia?
The president of the Confederacy (CSA) after the Election of 1860.
Who is Jefferson Davis
This is the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
After the Union victory in the Battle of Antietam President Lincoln issued what?
the Emancipation Proclamation.
What were the names of the two military campaigns General Sherman completed?
What Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea
General Sherman's March to the Sea ended in what southern city.
What is Savannah?
This General led a massive military campaign in Georgia that essentially ended the war.
Who is General William Sherman
What was the primary goal of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Free slaves from the rebellious states
Why did the North want to capture Chattanooga?
Because it was a railroad center in Tennessee
The name of the Union strategy to surround the Southern ports and cut of supply lines.
What was the Union Blockade? (Anaconda Plan)
This notorious Georgia prison that held more than 45,000 Union troops prisoner was located where.
What is Andersonville?
This political party/ Region that protected the right for slavery to continue and spread prior to the Civil War.
What is the Democratic Party/South
The Emancipation Proclamation shifted the focus from preserving to the Union to doing this.
What is freeing slaves?
When Sherman and the Union troops captured Savannah, what did Sherman do?
presented the city of Savannah to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
This Confederate General headed the notorious Andersonville prison.
Who was Major Henry Wirz?
This was the site of the largest Confederate victory over the Union in the Civil War.
What is Chickamauga?