Siege by Grant of this Mississippi city led the Confederacy to be split in two
In which speech did President Lincoln state that the Civil War was necessary to preserve the Union and that America was one nation, not a collection of individual states?
Gettysburg Address
To "secede" is to--
Leave the United States
Fort Sumter
First shots fired here by Confederacy against US
Tariffs in the 19th century...
Southerners opposed tariffs because they believed tariffs would scare off foreign buyers of their goods and make the imported goods they needed more expensive.
What is popular sovereignty?
The philosophy that the people have the right to determine for themselves the nature of their own government.
What was the first state to leave the Union?
South Carolina
William T. Sherman...
Known for Total War policy and March to the Sea
George McClellan
Inept leader of Union army who was eventually fired
T/F Lincoln believed secession was not permitted by the US Constitution
True
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson....
Famous for his leadership and dying by friendly fire
Antietam...
Bloodiest single day in American history.
What are Sherman's neckties?
heated railroad metal tied around tress
Shiloh...
General Ulysses S. Grant invades Tennessee.
T/F The south won the battle of Gettysburg
False
Alexander Stephens wrote the "Cornerstone Speech" to explain the Confederacy leaving the Union because they supported and defended .....
Slavery
Gettysburg...
Three-day battle that was a turning point in the war.
Jefferson Davis was...
President of the Confederacy
Describe the conditions at Andersonville Prison...