Civil War Review

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  1. 3. President of the U.S. during the civil war.
  2. 5. General of the Union Army, Ulysses S. __________
  3. 9. Where Robert E. Lee (South) surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (North) in 1865, ending the American Civil War. Lee surrendered because he was surrounded and out of supplies.
  4. 11. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth just _______ days after the Civil War ended, he did not get to finish his second term as President and did not oversee the Union repair from war.
  5. 13. 1863, 3-day battle. Bloodiest battle of the entire war. North wins. Turning point of the war because it was the last time the south attempted to invade the Union.
  6. 16. Name of the government of the southern states that tried to secede from the Union.
  7. 18. 1862 battle, North technically wins. Bloodiest single-day battle of war. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation after this win.
  8. 19. Capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War, ___________, Virginia
  9. 21. states Slave states that did not secede, remained fairly neutral during the war.
  10. 22. Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; First shots of the Civil War fired here.
  11. 23. 1863, Union victory. The Union gained control of the entire Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy's most western states off from access to their capital.
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  1. 1. Legal order issued by Lincoln, freeing enslaved people in all rebelling (seceding) states at war with the United States. Went into effect on January 1st, 1863.
  2. 2. A general term for the United States during the Civil War which also was used to refer to the Northern army.
  3. 4. Union officer who led a famous "March to the Sea" in which he destroyed railways, bridges, crops, livestock, and other resources in the south.
  4. 6. a war strategy that involves causing all the damage you can against your enemy's war resources; often resulting in complete destruction.
  5. 7. State that joined the Union after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
  6. 8. General of the Confederate Army
  7. 9. Union's war strategy to defeat the Confederacy by surrounding the South to cut off access to their supplies.
  8. 10. July 21, 1861, Confederate victory, 1st major battle, proved war was going to be long and costly
  9. 12. To leave or withdraw
  10. 14. United States of America, North, Blue uniforms, won the war.
  11. 15. Nov.-Dec. 1864, General Sherman and about 60,000 troops set out to march across Georgia; burnt cities and destroyed everything.
  12. 17. term for a conflict between two political groups within the same country, such as the one that occurred in the United States from 1861-1865
  13. 20. the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861