What were the forces in the South called?

Where did the war begin?

Who was the president of the Union?

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

What advantages did the North have? (Choose all that apply.)

What advantages did the South have? (Choose all that apply.)

How did the Anaconda Plan serve as an advantage to the North during the Civil War?

Which was NOT an advantage of the South:

Which battle was important because it divided the confederacy?

Union commander who used a ¨total war¨ strategy to destroy Georgia

Lincoln suspended the right of _______ meaning people could be jailed without a hearing.

________ became famous for her work with wounded soldiers during the Civil War. She later went on to found the Red Cross.

During the Civil War women worked as ________.

Who did Lincoln appoint to be the general of the Army of the Potomac after the First Battle of Bull Run?

What was Lincoln's reaction to the results of the Battle of Antietam?

Why did the first Civil War battle take place in Ft. Sumter?

During the Civil War, slave states that decided to stay with the Union were called ____ states.

What was the importance of the First Battle of Bull Run?

True/False: African American soldiers were given the same benefits as white soldiers.

Who were the Copperheads?

The freeing of slaves

Escaped slaves

The Democratic Party in the North feared that freed slaves would come north and take jobs at lower wages

The Union victory in this battle gave Lincoln the ability to issue the Emancipation Proclamation

This man noted that even after the Emancipation Proclamation "slavery, as a system" continued to exist in loyal slave states.

This man believed that military service would help African Americans gain rights.

The 54th Massachusetts Infantry consisted mostly of free African Americans and led a heroic charge on South Carolina's

Draft riots broke out in this city

The biggest cause of death in the Civil War was diseases

A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War.

Lasted approximately 6 weeks and ended when Farragut helped close off the supply route up the Mississippi.

Failed attempt by Confederate General George Picket to charge up Cemetery Ridge and overrun the Union forces. Lee retreated the next morning and Union General Meade decided not to follow the Confederates, which angered Lincoln, who wanted the war over.

A series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, VA.

Where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.

A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil War.

The first major battle of the Civil War and a Confederate victory.

Bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and in American history.

Lasted approximately 6 weeks and ended when Farragut helped close off the supply route up the Mississippi.

3 day battle in southern Pennsylvania that was the turning point for the Union armies. The bloodiest battle of the war for both sides.

Failed attempt by Confederate General George Picket to charge up Cemetery Ridge and overrun the Union forces. Lee retreated the next morning and Union General Meade decided not to follow the Confederates, which angered Lincoln, who wanted the war over.

A series of battles designed to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, VA.

Where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War.

General responsible for the U. S. victories in Mexico during the Mexican-American war. Too old (and heavy) to ride a horse during the Civil War, he was the strategist behind the Anaconda Plan that led to total Union victory.

Confederate general who was devoutly religious and constantly sucked on lemons. He was responsible, in part, for many of the early victories by the Confederate army.

West Point graduate, served in the Mexican War and led federal troops again John Brown at Harper’s Ferry. Lincoln offered him the generalship of the Union army but he declined because his home state, Virginia, sided with the Confederacy. He became the General in charge of the Army of Northern Virginia.

West Point graduate who also fought in the Mexican-American War. Union general who had a lot of success in the West. He was promoted to run all of the Union armies after his victory at the Battle of Shiloh and the successful Seige of Vicksburg. Represented the Union at the signing of the Armistice.

Original Union commander who was chosen by Lincoln. A great organizer who assembled a highly disciplined force of 100,000, but was soundly defeated by Confederate generals during the “Peninsular Campaign”. He was eventually replaced by Lincoln, became angry, and ran on the Democratic party ticket against Lincoln during the next election cycle (he lost).

Union admiral who helped Grant take New Orleans, and the City of Vicksburg, which ended the Siege at Vicksburg.

Union general whose “March to the Sea” through Georgia ended the war in the South.

Started the American Red Cross. “Angel of the Battlefield”.

Slave states that were “technically” Southern but did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War. Included Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.

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.

Ships heavily armored with iron plates (covered over the wood) Both sides had these ships.

A speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War.

The order to free the Confederate slaves.

Midwesterners that sympathized with the South and opposed abolition.

Destroying civilian and economic resources.

Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.

All African American regiment who led a heroic charge on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner

Escaped slaves.

The freeing of slaves.

Winfield Scott’s plan to defeat the South had 3 parts. (1) The Union needed 500,000 troops; (2) capture the Mississippi River Valley and cut off Southern supply routes; and (3) capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, VA

Who was Ulysses S. Grant?

The general who developed the Unionś early war strategy known as the "Anaconda Plan."