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Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Political cause of the Civil war | States Rights |
| Moral cause of the Civil War | Slavery |
| fired upon by Confederate forces to begin the Civil War (April, 1861). | Ft. Sumter |
| first battle of the Civil War to take place on Northern soil, bloodiest one-day battle in American history, led President Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation | Antietam |
| turning point of the Civil War, Lee’s invasion of northern territory was repelled; South was no longer capable of an offensive into Union territory | Gettysburg |
| North captured this stronghold to gain control of the Mississippi River and divided the Southern states. (May-July, 1863) | Vicksburg |
| changed the nature of the war from that of preserving the Union to freeing enslaved people, freed only the enslaved people in the rebelling territories. (announced September,1862; signed January, 1863) | Emancipation Proclamation |
| brings the Civil War to a close as Lee surrendered the Confederate forces of Virginia to Grant. (April, 1865). | Appamattox Courthouse |
| President of the Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
| general-in-chief of the Union Army during the Civil War, plan concentrated on Sherman’s march through Georgia and his own assault on the Confederate army in Virginia, accepted Lee’s surrender | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Lincoln offered the command of Union forces to but refused, appointed to command the Army of Northern Virginia, surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in 1865. | Robert E. Lee |
| President of the United States | Abraham Lincoln |
| Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, served with the 54th Massachusetts Regiment (Union), first African American soldier to receive the award | William Carney |
| born in Chile, South America, was a Navy seaman in the Union Navy, won the Medal of Honor for his distinguished service in the Civil War | Phillip Bazaar |
| The alliance of states that seceded from the Union | Confederate States of America |
| Equality – promised he had no intent to abolish slavery The Union – argued for the preservation of the Union The Government – stated it was against the law to secede from the Union | Lincoln’s first inaugural address |
| Equality – stated that slavery perpetuated the war and denounced slavery The Union – fought for restoration of peace and the Union The Government – Lincoln stated that there were people trying to destroy the government, with or without war | Lincoln’s second inaugural address |
| Equality – all enslaved people in the Confederate states would be free The Union – stated that the country was worth fighting for The Government – “The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall be preserved.” | Gettysburg Address |
| secession was similar to the colonists’ revolution against the British, a new alliance, State its government has remained; so that the rights of person and property have not been disturbed.” breaking from the Union was “a necessity, not a choice” | Jefferson Davis’s inaugural address |
| tendency to be more concerned with the interests of your particular group or region than with the problems and interests of the larger group, or country. South stanchly defending the need for slave labor for its agrarian based economy to function | Sectionalism |
| leading African American abolitionist; accomplished orator and writer | Frederick Douglass |
| Confederate General in the Civil War, led troops in the 1st and 2nd Battles of Bull Run(Manassas), Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg), and the Battle of Fredericksburg | Stonewall Jackson |
| Republican- Abraham Lincoln-winner N. Democrat- Stephen Douglas S. Democrat- John Breckinridge Constitutional Union- John Bell | Election of 1860 |
| South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas | Confederate States of America members |
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