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| April 12, 1861 | official date of the beginning of the Civil War |
| Fort Sumpter | place that the Confederates attacked that marked the beginning of the Civil War |
| George McClellan | 1st commander of the union army in the East |
| Richmond, Va. | capital of the Confederacy |
| Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri | 4 border states |
| Kentucky and Missouri were important because they were on rivers. Maryland was important because it was close to Washington D.C.; Delaware was on the Ocean | significance of each of the border states. |
| Anaconda Plan | union strategy to defeat the confederacy |
| lack of infrastructure, lack of industry, no naval power | weaknesses of the South |
| war would be long and bloody | lessons learned by the North after the first Battle of Bull Run |
| fought on home territory, better officers | advantages of South during the War |
| Thomas J Jackson (Stonewall) | Confederate officer who got his nickname from the time he stood firm against the Union during the First Battle of Bull Run |
| 90 day militias were no match for Confederate forces so he sent them home and called for a real army of 500,000 volunteers for 3 years | What did Lincoln realize about the Union army after the First Battle of Bull Run and what did he do as a result? |
| German, Irish | 2 groups of immigrants that made up the largest ethnic groups that fought in the Civil War |
| David Farragut | Union naval commander who captured New Orlens |
| Andersonville, Georgia | Southern prison camp with the worst reputation due to starvation and disease of the prisoners |
| ysses S. Grant | Union general who won battles in the west |
| Monitor | Union ironclad |
| rifles with minié balls | weapons developed through the use of new technology that could shoot farther and more accurately than muskets |
| Bull Run | first major battle of the Civil War |
| plunder | term that means to steal from or ransack |
| Merrimack | Confederate Ironclad |
| Antietam | bloodiest one day battle in American History |
| New Orleans | city captured that advanced the Union's goal of dividing the Confederacy |
| hygiene | conditions and practices that promote health |
| enlist | to join the armed forces |
| large population, more factories, railroads, almost all naval vessels and shipyards | Union strengths |
| had to depend on long supply lines, fewer good military leaders, fighting an offensive war | Union weaknesses |
