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Unit 11 Study Stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 fighting. |
| Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America. |
| Border States | Slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War. |
| Border States | Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia. |
| John C. Breckinridge | Southern Democrat candidate in the Election of 1860 |
| Stephen Douglas | Northern Democrat candidate in the Election of 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln | Republican Candidate and winner of of the Election of 1860 |
| John Bell | presidential candidate in 1860 for the Constitutional Union Party. |
| John Bell | 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 that was old, but he 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 country with it's heavy casualties |
| Antietam | Fought in Maryland, it is the single bloodiest day in American history |
| Antietam | Battle that stopped the first Confederate invasion to the North |
| Antietam | After this battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
| Gettysburg | Turning point of the Civil War, stopped Lee’s second invasion of the North |
| Gettysburg | Battle that convinced England and France to not ally with the South |
| Gettysburg | The Confederate army suffered so many casualties at this battle, they could not invade the north again |
| Vicksburg | Capture of this city led to the Union capturing the Mississippi River |
| Vicksburg | Battle that officially divided the Confederacy in half |
| Vicksburg | Grant won this siege on July 4, thus officially 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 that 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 that used guerilla warfare on the Union army Mississippi and Tennessee |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union commander that finally defeated Robert E. Lee and won the war |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Won the battles of Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg and Chattanooga for the Union |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate General responsible for the forces defending Richmond |
| Robert E. Lee | Won the Seven Days Battles, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville |
| Stonewall Jackson | Confederate General that saved the day at First Bull Run and earned a famous nickname |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Order issued by Lincoln that officially, freed the slaves in the Confederate states but not the border states |
| Emancipation Proclamation | 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 Union Army |
| Nashville | The 13th Colored Troops helped to destroy the Confederate Army in Tennessee at his battle |
| Sam Watkins | A soldier from Clarksville that kept a journal about his experiences in the Confederate army |
| Elisha Hunt Rhodes | He kept a diary about 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 |