Another name for the Confederate States of America which was formed by the 11 Southern states that seceded was____.

Much of the fighting took place between the capital of United States, ______________, and the capital of the Confereracy, __________.

Most white Virginians hoped that the new ______ nation would endure the fighting with its flag flying proudly over what had been the U.S. South.

The first major land battle of the Civil War took place in Northern Virginia. The battle was called ________________.

The Battle of Bull Run was a victory for the _______ troops which was a great surprise to the Northern states.

The Battle of Fredericksburg was one of the _________ troops worst loss. They suffered huge casualties.

One of the fiercest sea battles of the Civil War took place in Virginia near ___________ and ______________.

The Monitor was a ____________ ship

The Merrimack was a __________________ ship.

Another name for the Monitor and Merrimack ships is _______.

In the 1840s and the 1850s, the North's economy was more_________________.

Tobacco was Virginia's main crop, but the late 1700s there was another crop thriving in the South. What was it?

The South stayed mostly ________________________ but its territory and crops changed. The Midwest developed as a mostly agriculture region without slavery.

Industrialized means:

Agricultural means:

Plantations are large farms that grow a lot of one major cash crop, such as tobacco or cotton.

Abolition means:

Like Robert E. Lee most white Virginians supported the ___________ cause.

White Virginians gave everything they had for their new nation. ________ knitted socks, made bandages, taught school, worked in factories, raised children, and kept farms and plantations running.

Black Virginians worked in the ___________ and kept railroads running.

Most Virginia Indians tried to keep out of the "white man's war." They had no sympathy for the Confederate cause. Indians were considered "people of color" and had to carry freedom papers. Fourteen Indians from the Tidewater region were a big help to the __________ army as river/land guides and spies.

The war affected African Americans in a huge way. Throughout 1863 and 1864, many slaves that were of military age enlisted and put on the blue uniform to help save the ____________ and end slavery.

The Union army and navy welcomed African Americans. At first they were only allowed to do support work but in time they trained them to become ___________________ ready.

President Lincoln had to do something about slavery in order to win the war. On January 1, 1863, he issued the ___________ declaring slavery abolished in any part of the Confederacy that had not yet come back under control of Union armies. Thousands of slaves left the South's plantations and volunteered to serve in the ___________ army.

The _______________ was a plan that drew an imaginery line through the Louisiana Territory, to decide which new states would permit slavery and which would be free.

A new political party, the Republicans, vowed to stop slavery from expanding. The party's candidate, _______________, was elected president in 1860.

Some southerners feared that Lincoln would end slavery so in December 1860, South Carolina and six other Southern states decided to _______________ from the United States.

Secede means to _______________.

The Southern states formed a new country called the.......

On April 12th, 1861, Confederate soldiers attacked Fort Sumter. President Lincoln called on all states that had not seceded to send volunteers to fight the soldiers. After a vote, Virginia decided to _______________.

The western part of Virginia did not rely on slavery and did not want to leave the Union (United States of America). The two parts of Virginia continued to argue. Finally the western part of the state decided to secede from Virginia. in 1863 Congress recognized a new state, called ________________.

The first battle of the Civil War was in ______________.

To stop slaves from escaping through the Underground Railroad, many Virginia slave owners called for a federal_________. This law required Northerners to help capture runaway slaves.

John Brown was a white ___________________ who led a group of men to the armory in Harpers Ferry. His supporters planned to take the guns and start a slave ________________.

Abolitionist means.........

Armory means ..............................

The first major land battle of the Civil War was known as___________. (choose all that apply)

Was there a Southern Advantage? The slaves grew _____ to feed soldiers. In the deep South they grew _____ to cloth the soldiers. This freed up the white men to go to __________.

Was there a Northern Advantage? The North had far more _____________ to produce war goods. It had a strong navy which allowed it to ___________ Southern ports. It also had many more men able to _______________.

_________________ was one of the finest Confederate generals of the Civil War. Had one of his own troops not accidentally shot him , the _________________ would have had a better chance of victory.

Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson earned his nickname because he was tough as a pile of rocks. Someone described him as "standing like a stone wall" during the _____________________.

Ulysses Grant never gave up. In March 1864 Abraham Lincoln named him general in chief of the ___________ army.

Robert E. Lee struggled with the decision to head up the Union troops as Abraham Lincoln wanted or to be loyal to his birthplace, Virginia. He chose to head up the _____________ troops.

Robert E. Lee was able to defeat the __________ troops at the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Fredericksburg.

The goal of the Union army had been to capture __________, the Confederate capital. It took four deadly years, but finally in April 1865 word came to Richmond that the Confederate troops were failing.

General Lee's army was retreating as General Grant's men drew closer. The Confederate troops feared if they lost control of their city that a vast amount of supplies would fall into the hands of the Union army so they _________ their own capital city of Richmond.

On April 9, 1865, Lee's aide carried a white flag through the lines to tell _________________ that Robert E. Lee was ready to surrender. The guns fell silent.

The awful war with so many different names led to the end of _______________ and the fall of wealthy Southern planters.

On April 9, 1865 at 1:30 in the afternoon, Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant sat down at the McLean House in _________, a small town near Lynchburg, Virginia.