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Unit 11 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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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 | Slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War. |
Border States | 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 | Republican candidate and winner of the Election of 1860. |
Abraham Lincoln | Opposed the spread of slavery into the territories. |
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 its 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 | 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 4th, 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, freedom 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 this 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. |