Fast & Curious Civil War

site where the Civil War began when Confederate soldiers opened fire on Union troops in 1861

• border states
• Robert E. Lee
• Fort Sumter
• total war

stateswith strong ties to both the North and the South

• Copperheads
• Robert E. Lee
• Fort Sumter
• border states

Union general who planned to block southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River

• George Pickett
• border states
• Fort Sumter
• Winfield Scott

the idea that Britain would support the South because it needed the South's raw cotton supply

• ironclads
• cotton diplomacy
• total war
• Fort Sumter

southern general who led his troops to victory in the Battle of Bull Run

• total war
• Jefferson Davis
• cotton diplomacy
• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

important battle that ended the North's hopes of winning the war quickly

• Second Battle of Bull Run
• First Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Shiloh

Union general who put together a force of soldiers called the Army of the Potomac

• George B. McClellan
• border states
• George B. Meade
• George Pickett

commander of the Confederate army

• Fort Sumter
• Robert E. Lee
• border states
• habeas corpus

battle during which Lee defeated Union forces in Virginia and began to march north

• First Battle of Bull Run
• Second Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Antietam
• Battle of Shiloh

important Maryland battle during which the Union stopped Lee's advance to the North

• Battle of Antietam
• border states
• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Gettysburg