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  • Vicksburg
    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...
    death, heat, disease, starvation, murder, inhumane conditions
  • Abraham Lincoln was
    President of the United States
  • Abraham Lincoln once joked that the following person started the Civil War because of his/her writing.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Clara Barton was most closely associated with--
    Healthcare for soldiers during the Civil War.
  • Bull Run
    A shocking defeat for the Union/North and first major battle.
  • Who was the 54th Massachusetts?
    First all black Union regiment of soldeirs
  • Ulysses S. Grant was...
    Leader of the Union Army
  • Jefferson Davis was...
    President of the Confederacy, Senator from Mississippi, and plantation owner
  • What was the importance of the Appomattox Courthouse?
    It is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant, ending the Civil War.
  • What were border states?
    States that allowed slavery, but did not leave the Union
  • T/F Most Civil War battles were fought in the North
    False
  • Robert E. Lee was...
    Leader of the Confederate army
  • How long and wide was Sherman's March?
    1,000 miles and 60 miles wide
  • What is an "abolitionist?"
    An individual who worked to end the institution of slavery.
  • What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
    Proclamation that freed slaves in the rebelling states