People
This person became president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This was a Union commander who seized New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Natchez.
David G. Farragut
This was a state that prohibited slavery.
Ohio
Next to which physical feature is Vicksburg located?
Mississippi River
1) Blockade the South's ports
2) Divide the South into 2 parts along the Mississippi River
3) Take the capital of Richmond
This was a Union nurse who cared for the sick and wounded on the front lines.
Clara Barton
This person was a Union commander who burned a path of destruction through Georgia.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This state seceded on June 8, 1861.
Tennessee
In which state did most of the fighting shown on this map take place?
Mississippi
List three advantages that the North had.
Large Population (both of workers, and men of fighting age)
Industries
Food, food production
Rail Road
This Republican won the presidency in 1860.
Abraham Lincon
This general was responsible for the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run.
What state seceded on January 19, 1861.
Georgia
What happened at Vicksburg?
The city surrendered after a long siege by Union forces.
Describe the effect total war had on the South.
Total war=destruction of land (farms, livestock); rail roads destroyed, cities (industrial centers like Atlanta, GA) burned
South in economic ruins; widens gap between North and South for years. South kept "poor"
This Union general was eventually fired by Lincoln for having the "slows", (not being aggressive).
George McClellan
This person was a hero at Vicksburg and who became commander of all Union armies in 1864.
Ulysses S. Grant
This state was a slave state that was bordered on three sides by states in the Union.
Missouri
How were Jackson and Vicksburg connected?
Railroad
What country did the South believe would be on their side?
For what reason did the South think they would side with them?
What stance did that country take?
Britain
For South's cash crop of cotton
Britain remained neutral (to support the South was to support slavery and they abolished that a couple decades earlier)
This person was a southern sympathizer and actor who assassinated President Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
This was a Confederate commander who opposed secession but sided with his beloved state of Virginia.
Robert E. Lee
What state is the easternmost slave state that remained in the Union.
Delaware
from the East
Describe how each the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment affected the nation.
Additional point each for 14th and 15th Amendments.
Emancipation Proclamation: Issued Jan. 1, 1863-targets slaves held in Confederate states; enslaved people were free (as used as a weapon of war/labor), when Union armies showed up.
13th Amendment: Issued Dec. 1865-abolition of slavery in the entire US
14th Amendment: all peoples born or naturalized in the US are now citizens to be seen as equals in the eyes of the law (no guarantee of equality)
15th Amendment: African American men are granted the right to vote
Federal government power increases; former Confederate states responds negatively with black codes; KKK