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Civil War
Dates and Battles
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| April 12, 1861 | Fort Sumter |
| Fort Sumter | start of war |
| Start of War | April 12, 1861 |
| End of War | April 9, 1865 |
| July 1-3, 1863 | Battle of Gettysburg |
| Emancipation Proclamation | January 1, 1863 |
| April 9, 1865 | Appomattox Virginia |
| Lincoln's Death | April 15, 1865 |
| First Battle of Bull Run | Lincoln realizes he needs more men and training, it is going to be a long bloody war |
| Antietam | Paved the way for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gettysburg | Turning point in the war, South cannot win |
| Vicksburg | North conquers and takes Mississippi River |
| Sherman's March | Total War divides South in half |
| Appomattox Virginia | end of the war |
| Civil War Amendments | Amendments 13, 14, 15 |
| Ambrose Burnside | Union |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union |
| William Sherman | Union |
| George Meade | Union |
| George McClellan | Union |
| Robert Anderson | Union |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate |
| George Pickett | Confederate |
| siege | an attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender |
| General Sherman | tough soldier that led a march to Atlanta and captured it |
| Total War | all-out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy's army, its resources, and its people's will to fight |
| John Wilkes Booth | Confederate sympathizer who shot Lincoln |
| 10% Plan | ten percent of a state's voters swore to an oath of loyalty to the United States, the voters could organize a new state government and that government would have to declare an end to slavery. After that, states could send members to take part in Congress |
| Reconstruction | the process in which Americans had to master their hard feelings and being the North and South together again, restoring the Union and rebuilding the nation |
| Civil War | a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country |
| North Strengths | resources, people, factories, ships |
| South Strengths | homeland, skills, officers, leaders |
| Step 1 | surround the south with war ships |
| Step 2 | take the Mississippi River |
| Step 3 | Divide and Conquer |
| Step 4 | Take Richmond the South's Capital |