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Civil War
Review the Civil War Era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Slavery, states' rights, and _________________ were the 3 causes of the Civil War | sectionalism |
| The section of the country that focused on factories, mills, and new transportation | North |
| The section of the country that focused on agriculture and slave labor | South |
| plantations | large farms in the South that depended on slave labor |
| This was King in the South | cotton |
| President for the North (Union) | Abraham Lincoln |
| President for the South (Confederacy) | Jefferson Davis |
| General for the North (Union) | Ulysses S. Grant |
| General for the South (Confederacy) | Robert E. Lee |
| Southern general who got his nickname at the Battle of Bull Run | Stonewall Jackson |
| start of the Civil War | Battle at Fort Sumter |
| bloodiest 1-day battle of the Civil War | Battle of Antietam |
| turning point of the Civil War | Battle of Gettysburg |
| bloodiest overall battle of the Civil War | Battle of Gettysburg |
| when the North took control of the Mississippi River | Battle of Vicksburg |
| winning side in the Civil War | North (Union) |
| losing side in the Civil War | South (Confederacy) |
| where General Lee surrendered to General Grant | Appomattox, Virginia |
| what Lincoln signed that set the slaves free in the rebel states | Emancipation Proclamation |
| first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor | William Carney |
| a man from Chile that won the Congressional Medal of Honor while in the Union navy | Philip Bazaar |
| what Lincoln promised not to mess with when he gave his 1st Inaugural Address | slavery |