Battle of Gettysburg
-July 1863
- 40,000 casualties
- Union Victory
- Turning Point in war.
Shiloh
April 1862
- Over 20,000 casualties
- Major Union victory in the Union theater.
Sherman's March to Sea
- Winter of 1864
- General Sherman led Union forces through Georgia
- Devastates land and cities in his path.
Battle of Antietam
Sept 1862
- Over 20,000 casualties
- Won by Gen McInnis Union Army over Gen Lee.
- Deadliest day in U.S. History.
First Battle of Bull Run
-July 1861
- 1st land battle of the war
- Neither side prepared.
-Confederacy won.
Appomattox
- April 1865
- Final battle before Lee surrendered his army to Gen Grant and ends war at courthouse.
California, Union
__________ was admitted to the ______ through the Compromise of 1850
Fort Sumter, Civil War
In the battle of _____________, the first shots of the ________________ were fired.
Emancipation Proclamation, Union
President Lincoln issued the _______________________ several days after the major __________ victory in Antietam.
Gettysburg
The battle of ___________ is considered the turning point of war.
Disease
Most soldiers of Civil War died from _______
Battle of Bull Run, Manassas, Confederate
The early Civil War, first of ________, took place near ____________ and was surprising ___________ victory.
Stonewall Jackson, Battle of Bull Run
__________________ earned his famous nickname for not fleeing at the ______________________.
South Carolina Secedes
The news headline "______________" was caused by the election of Abraham Lincoln.
Anaconda Plan, Union's
The _________________ was the nickname for the ________ naval blockade of the Confederacy.
Emancipation Proclamation
The _______________ freed slaves only in rebelling states of the South.
President Lincoln
___________________ believed that it was illegal for states to secede.
Jefferson Davis, Confederacy
_____________, former US Senator from Mississippi, was elected President of the ____________.
General Robert E. Lee, Courthouse
___________________ surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox ____________, Virginia.
Industry, farming
Prior to the Civil War, the North's economy was based mostly on _________, while the South's was based on _________.
Southerners, Democratic
Most _________ who wanted to expand slavery belonged to the _____________ political party.
John Wilkes Boothe , Ford's Theater
_______________ assassinated President Lincoln at _______________
Northern Republicans, Carpetbaggers
____________________ who moved to the South after the war were called ________________.
scalawags
Southerners who supported Reconstruction were called __________.
Sherman, Savannah
General _______ was the Union General that led his army in destroying everything in a path from Atlanta to ___________.
Freedmen's Bureau, aid
The purpose of the _________________ after the Civil War was to provide _______ to freed slaves.
Abraham Lincoln
President of the U.S. His election spurred the South to secede.
Jefferson Davis
President of the confederacy after serving as a congressman from Mississippi.
Frederick Douglas
was a former slave and prominent abolitionist who urged President Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight. He believed African Americans would earn the right to full citizenship in the U.S., and have the right to vote, own property, and be allowed the f
Stonewall Jackson
leading Confederate general who earned his famous nickname at the First Battle of Bullrun.
Ulysses S. Grant
leading Union General and became top general of the entire Union Army.
Robert E. Lee
Led the Army of North Virginia and the Confederacy's top forces. Surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox ending the Civil War.
Gold, California
In 1848, _____ was discovered in ______________
Reconstruction
The period following the Civil War during the U.S government worked to reunite to nation and to rebuild the southern states
Ten Percent Plan President
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction; once 10 percent of voters in a former Confederate state took a U.S loyalty oath, they could form a new state government and be readmitted to the Union
Thirteenth Amendment
A constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery
Freedmen's Bureau
An agency established by Congress in 1865 to help poor people throughout the South.
Black Codes
Laws passed in the southern states during Reconstruction that greatly limited the freedom rights of African Americans
Radical Republicans
Members of Congress who felt that southern states needed to make great social changes before they could be readmitted to the Union
Civil Rights Act of 1866
A law that gave African Americans legal rights equal to those of white Americans
Fourteenth Amendment
A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United states, except for American Indians
Reconstruction acts
The laws that put the southern states under U.S military control and required them to draft new constructions upholding the Fourteenth Amendment
Impeachment
The process used by a legislative body to bring charges of wrongdoing against a public official
Fifteenth Amendment
A constitutional amendment that gave African American men the right to vote
Lincoln, Southern, secede
Some people predicted that if __________ was elected president of the United States, the ____________ states would ________
representatives, Union, Confederate States of America
In February 1861, _______________ from states that had left the ________ met in Montgomery, Alabama and adopted a constitution for the _________________
State, South Carolina
The first state to leave the _________ was ___________________.
Alexander H. Stephens, Confederacy
___________________ was Vice President of the ________________
Popular Sovereignty
Letting residents decide if a state should have slavery
Kansas, Free
There was bitter fighting and conflict in ___________ before it voted to be a _______ state
Northerners, Union
_______________ felt they were fighting the Civil War to preserve the ___________
South, States' rights
The _______ felt they were fighting the Civil Was for _____________
Innovation
A new idea felt they were fighting for states' rights
Execute
To perform or carry out
Reconstruction
The period after the Civil War was call