A | B |
Border States | Delaware Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri |
Advantages of the North | More Railroad mileage, More Resources, More people,more telegraph lines |
Advantages of the South | Excellent Military leaders, Strong Fighting Spirit, Knowledge of the land |
Union Goal for the Civil War | Restore the Union of States |
Confederate Goal of the Civil War | To be an independent Nation |
Confederate strategies to win the war | Fight a defensive war win the support of Great Britain |
Union Strategies to win the Civil War | Control the Mississippi and split the South, Blockade southern ports where they could not ship cotton and Capture Richmond |
First Bull Run | First Major Battle of the Civil War |
South | Who one the first battle of Bull run? |
Anaconda Plan | The name given to the Union Plan for winning the war |
Stonewall Jackson | Confederate General that stood firm at the Battle of Bull Run when others were retreating |
Union Ironclad | Monitor |
Confederate Ironlad | Merimack |
Tie | Who won the Batle between the Merrimack and the Monitor? |
Union | Who won the Battle of Shiloh? |
Farragut | Union Admiral that captured New Orleans? |
Antietam | The single deadlest day of fighting in the war happened at which battle? |
Emancipation Proclamation | Issued by Lincoln, it freed the slaves in the states at war against the Union |
Clara Barton | Nurse in the civil war she later founded the Red Cross |
Habeas Corpus | Lincoln Suspended this right of people to make government show why they are jailed. It's Suspension allowed Government to jail a person without reason |
Gettysburg | The battle that was the turning point of the civil war. after this Lee never invades the North again. |
Vicksburg | One of the last strongholds on the Mississippi. Grant cirled it and starved them into surrender. |
Hardships in the south | Crops and homes destroyed./Not able to get the things that they use to get due to blockade |
Andersonville | Confederate Prision for Union Soldiers with bad living conditions |
Draft | A requirement to serve in the military |
over 600,000 | number of Americans killed in the Civil War |
Robert E. Lee | COnfederateCommander |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy |
Abraham Lincoln | President of the United States during the Civil War |
Ulysses S. Grant | Comander of Union Forces in the Civil War |
Appomattox Court House | Where Grant accepted lee's surrender |
greenbacks | Northern money |
The March to the Sea | Campaign by General Sherman (Union) that burned and destroyed crops, building and livestock over a wide part of the South from Atlanta to Savvanah |
Richmond | Confederate Capital |
William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General that began took Atlanta and made the March to the sea. |
Total War | A type of war that targets not only the enemy but also its land and people. |
Civil War | The Bloodiest War in American History |
11 | Number of Confederate states that left the Union |
South | Most destruction in the Civil war took place here. |
Sectionalism | The division of the country into sections where the politicians only do what is in the best int rest of their section (ne of the cause of the war. |
South | Who had better generals? |
Telegraphs | The north had more of these communication devices and Lincoln used them to communicate with troops |