The Civil War-US

With this action, Abraham Lincoln caused four states to join the Confederacy.

• declaration of war
• Emancipation Proclamation
• winning the election
• call for volunteers to fight

This Confederate capital was only about 100 miles from Washington, D.C.

• Richmond, Virginia
• Lexington, Kentucky
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Baltimore, Maryland

This clash on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest day of the entire Civil War.

• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Richmond
• New Orleans

African Americans in the North greeted the Emancipation Proclamation

• regretfully.
• joyfully.
• angrily.
• sadly.

After destroying Atlanta in 1864, William Tecumseh Sherman began a “march to the sea,” heading toward

• Charleston, South Carolina.
• Richmond, Virginia.
• Savannah, Georgia
• Baltimore

In the Civil War for the first time, thousands of women served as

• soldiers.
• war correspondents
• generals.
• nurses.

This guarantees accused individuals the right to a hearing before being jailed.

• bounty
• greenbacks
• draft
• habeas corpus

In 1861, 48 Virginia counties organized themselves as a separate state called

• Maryland.
• Delaware
• West Virginia.
• East Virginia.

The main goal of the North at the beginning of the war was to

• end slavery.
• to be recognized as independent
• punish the South.
• reunite country.

He was responsible for securing the city of New Orleans for the union:

• Grant
• Farragut
• Meade
• Lee