Unit 11 Study Stack Word Scramble

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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

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