Unit 8 wk 1

16th President of the USA; Commander in Chief of the Union (North/USA)

• Stephen Douglas

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln won with only 40% of the popular vote, south is upset and several states leave the union as a result

• Election of 1860

• South Secession

• Popular vote

• electoral vote

General for the Confederacy, from VA, originally asked by the union to be General, but refused Lincoln's offer

• General George McClellan

• General Robert E. Lee

• General Ulysses S. Grant

• General Jefferson Davis

Union General, very meticulous, cautious, detailed oriented, had a hard time fighting fast aggressive opponents.

• General George McClellan

• General Robert E. Lee

• General Burnside

• General Davis

1st and only president of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy)

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Davis Jefferson

• Ulysses Grant

Preserve the Union (nation), bring the country back together

• Davis' goal

• Lee's goal

• Lincoln's goal

• Jefferson's Goal

to strangle the confederacy by placing a blockade up the coast and in the gulf of

Mexico to cut off trade and gain the Mississippi River.

• King Cotton

• Blockade run

• Cotton Run

• Anaconda Plan

the use of the cash crop (COTTON) to trade with European countries for support and supplies

• Blockade run

• Anaconda Plan

• King Cotton

• Cotton Run

First batle of the Civil War. Confederacy took over the Union controlled fort of Charleston, SC. Union was forced to surrender.

• Fort Sumter

• Battle of Charleston

• Fort Charleston

• Battle of siege

Antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that exposed the evils of slavery

• Aunt Betty's Cabin

• Uncle John Brown

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin