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Unit 11 Colonies Voc
Unit 11 Colonies Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Election of 1860 | The election that led the Southern States to leave the Union and form the Confederacy |
| Fort Sumter | The first shots of the Civil War were fired here; Confederates fired on Union soldiers to begin the fighting |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
| Border States I | Slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War |
| Border States II | Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and eventually West Virginia |
| John C. Breckinridge | Southern Democratic candidate in the election of 1860 |
| Stephen Douglas | Northern Democratic candidate in the election of 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln I | Republican candidate and winner of the election of 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln II | Opposed the spread of slavery into the territories |
| John Bell I | Constitutional Union candidate in the election of 1860 |
| John Bell II | Stood for a peaceful compromise to hold the Union together in 1860 |
| First Bull Run | First major battle of the Civil War; Southern victory; showed that the war would be long and costly for both sides |
| Anaconda Plan | Union strategy for winning the war; blockade the South, divide the Confederacy, and capture Richmond, the CS capital |
| Winfield Scott | Union general who was old but came up with the Anaconda plan |
| Blockade | To prevent a nation from trading or communicating with another nation by sea |
| Shiloh | Battle in southwestern Tennessee that shocked the nation with its heavy casualties |
| Antietam I | Fought in Maryland, it is the single bloodiest day in American history |
| Antietam II | Battle that stopped the first Confederate invasion of the North |
| Antietam III | After this battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gettysburg I | Turning point of the Civil War; stopped Lee's second invasion of the North |
| Gettysburg II | Battle that convinced England and France not to ally with the South |
| Gettysburg III | Confederate army suffered so many casualties at this battle that they could not invade the North again |
| Vicksburg I | Capture of this city led to the Union capturing the Mississippi River |
| Vicksburg II | Battle that officially divided the Confederacy in half |
| Vicksburg III | Grant won this siege on July 4, thus dividing the Confederacy in half |
| March to the Sea | The Union army led by William Sherman waged total war on the people of Georgia to break their will to support the Confederate army |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Union general who used total warfare to destroy property, livestock, and transportation systems to force the Southern people to surrender |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Lee and the Confederate army officially surrendered to Grant and the Union army at his place on April 9, 1865 |
| David Farragut | Union Admiral from Tennessee, responsible for the blockade of the Confederacy |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | Confederate cavalry commander who used guerrilla warfare on the Union army in Mississippi and Tennessee |
| Ulysses S. Grant I | Union commander who finally defeated Robert E. Lee and won the war |
| Ulysses S. Grant II | Won the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga for the Union |
| Robert E. Lee I | Confederate General responsible for the forces defending Richmond |
| Robert E. Lee II | Won the Seven Days Battle, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate General who saved the day at First Bull Run and earned a famous nickname |
| Emancipation Proclamation I | Order issued by Lincoln that officially freed the slaves in the Confederate States, but not the border states |
| Emancipation Proclamation II | Officially allowed African Americans to enlist and fight in the US army |
| Gettysburg Address | Brief speech given by Abraham Lincoln that summed up the goals of the war and honored the dead |
| 54th Massachusetts | The first all-black regiment to fight in the Civil War |
| Nashville | The 13th Colored Troops helped to destroy the Confederate Army in Tennessee at this battle |
| Sam Watkins | A soldier from Clarksville who kept a journal about his experiences in the Confederate Army |
| Elisha Hunt Rhodes | He kept a diary about his life as a soldier in the Union Army |
| Fort Wagner | The 54th Massachusetts showed their bravery and earned the respect of the Union Army when they charged this fort |
| Henry and Donelson | The capture of these two forts helped the Union control the Tennessee River System. |
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