Part 1
At the beginning of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln maintained that the war was being fought to _______ the _______, meaning to keep the country together.
preserve the Union
The first battle of the Civil War was fought at ________________________.
Bull Run
The victory at Vicksburg was a turning point for the Union because they took control of the ___________________________.
Mississippi River
Why did some Democrats in Congress oppose the war? What was their reasoning?
They thought it was unconstitutional.
During the Civil War, Lincoln had to balance the rights of individuals with the need for social control. He suspended people's right to a writ of habeas corpus. What did that mean the government could do to people?
People could be arrested and held without being given a specific reason.
The Union plan to defeat the South was known as the _______________________ Plan.
Anaconda Plan
General Lee surrendered to General Grant at __________________________ Courthouse in 1865.
Appomattox
President Lincoln gave a very famous, but short, speech at a dedication of a cemetery to honor Union dead. What was that speech known as?
The Gettysburg Address
The Civil War settled a constitutional issue that ______ government has supremacy over _____ government.
a) federal government has supremacy over state government
b) state government has supremacy over federal government
the federal gov has supremacy over the state gov.
The first two ironclad ships were known as the __________________ & the _______________________.
Monitor and the Merrimack
________________________ assassinated Abraham Lincoln as he was watching a play at Ford's Theater.
John Wilkes Booth
Who does Lincoln appoint in early 1864 to take command of all Union armies in the East? What was his purpose in doing so?
Ulysses S. Grant because he thought a more aggressive general would be necessary.
Name the prison in the South where 13,000 captured Union soldiers died
Andersonville
To pay for the war in the North, the first federal __________________________ was passed.
income tax
Abraham Lincoln chose _____________________ as his new running mate in the election of 1864.
Andrew Johnson
How did the South feel it would win the war? What did they think had to happen for them to be successful?
War of Attrition, outlast the Union soldiers?
Who had the better military leaders, the North or the South?
The South
Democrats in Congress who opposed the war were known as ________________________.
Copperheads
What were two strengths the Confederacy had during the war?
Better military leaders (generals), home turf advantage, fighting for a cause they believed in
The Emancipation Proclamation:
a. guaranteed the right to vote for all African Americans.
b. decreed freedom for all enslaved people in the states at war with the Union.
c. decreed freedom for all enslaved people.
d. decreed freedom for all enslaved people in the loyal border states.
The Emancipation Proclamation decreed freedom for all enslaved people in the states at war with the Union.
_____________________________ was known as the "angel of the battlefield” for her nursing efforts during the war. She is known for founding the American Red Cross after the war.
Clara Barton
What three things did the North feel they had to do to win the war? (3 parts of the official plan to end the war)
Blockade southern ports, take Richmond, Virginia (the capital of the confederacy), and take the Mississippi River