Unit 11: Civil War

a federal outpost in Charleston,

South Carolina, that was attacked by the

Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil

War

• Fort McHenry
• Fort Sumter
• Fort Knox
• Fort Ticonderoga

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland,

and Missouri; slave states that lay between

the North and the South and did not join the

Confederacy during the Civil War

• Border States

• Outliers

• Roundabout States

• Flyover States

Confederate efforts to use

the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s

textile industry to persuade the British to

support the Confederacy in the Civil War

• Cotton Diplomacy

• King Cotton

• Cotton Politics

• Cotton Farming

the first

major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a

Confederate victory; showed that the Civil War

would not be won easily

• Battle of Vicksburg
• First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas)
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg

(1862) a series of Civil War

battles in which Confederate army successes

forced the Union army to retreat from

Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital

• Seven Days' Battles

• Battle of Antietam
• Siege of Vicksburg
• Battle of Gettysburg

(1862) a Civil War

battle in which the Confederate army forced

most of the Union army out of Virginia

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Second Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Bull Run

(1862) a Union victory in

the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-

day battle in U.S. military history

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Vicksburg
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Gettysburg

a warship that is heavily armored with

iron

• Steelclad
• Ironclad
• Armorclad
• Metalclad

(1862) a Civil War battle in

Tennessee in which the Union army gained

greater control over the Mississippi River

valley

• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Fort Donelson

(1863) the Union army’s

six-week blockade of Vicksburg that led the

city to surrender during the Civil War

• Vicksburg Victory

• Vicksburg Blockade

• Battle of Vicksburgh

• Siege of Vicksburg