Unit 5--The Civil War

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Across
  1. 1. AKA Battle of Sharpsburg, McLellan finds Lee's Battle plan. Union keeps South from advancing, bloodiest single day battle in US history. Gives Lincoln confidence to give the Emancipation Proclamation
  2. 4. Sumter Lincoln is sending unarmed troops to resupply Fort Sumter and says they will not fire unless fired upon. Before they reach the fort, Confederate troops attack and eventually overtake the fort, forcing the US to surrender it to the Confederates. Official start of the Civil War
  3. 5. 1st major battle of Civil War, and the Confederate's victory. The battle is also known as the first Battle of Manassas. It shattered the North's hopes of winning the war quickly.
  4. 7. was based on manufacturing and trade
  5. 8. was based on agriculture/plantations/slave labor
  6. 10. Causes of the Civil War: The nation was divided on whether slavery should be allowed or not. The North wanted slavery to be illegal, the South wanted slavery to be legal.
  7. 18. Three day battle, major turning point, most casualties of the war. Lee will not attack in the North again, England & France will not engage in "Cotton Diplomacy"
  8. 20. Mayor surrenders to Union, after Union ships make their way between forts on both sides of the MS River, but remains loyal to south
  9. 22. on the defensive/Home field advantage greater food
  10. 23. Smaller population--only 9 million 1/9 the industrial capacity of the Union
  11. 24. Causes of the Civil War: Southern States broke away from the Union to form their own country, The Confederate States of America, out of fear of losing the right to own slaves.
  12. 31. Union surrounds the city (which sits on a hill above the MS River), Grant surrounds and starves them out until they surrender, giving the Union greater control of the MS river
  13. 32. Cotton Diplomacy=Convince European countries to help them out of fear of losing their cotton source outlast the Union
Down
  1. 2. Grant surrounds Lee's army and forces them to surrender, Union wins the war
  2. 3. Union trying to make its way to Richmond, but Confederates hold them out. Stonewall Jackson is accidentally shot by his own troops
  3. 6. Lincoln dedicates the battlefield, reminds troops of the Declaration of Independence and why they are fighting. Inspiration to keep fighting to defeat the South.
  4. 9. PGT Beauregard, Stonewall Jackson, A.S. Johnston, Pemberton, Longstreet, Pickett
  5. 11. Fighting on the offensive--had to invade, conquer, and occupy the south less trained soldiers
  6. 12. Frees all slaves in Southern states, many African Americans begin fighting for the Union
  7. 13. McDowell, Pope, McClellan farragut, Burnside, Hooker, Chamberlain, Oates, Sherman
  8. 14. Union captures Atlanta to cut off railroad, continues marching to Savannah. Practice of "total war" which means destroying resources along the way. Gave North confidence to re-elect Lincoln
  9. 15. After capturing Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Grant leads Union troops in TN, while waiting for backup from Ohio army, South attacks. When Ohio forces finally arrive, Union pushes Southern troops back into MS
  10. 16. Anaconda Plan=surround the South by blockading the Atlantic Coast take control of the Mississippi River capture the Confederate Capital of Richmond, VA
  11. 17. president of the USA during the Civil War
  12. 19. Greater population--21 million
  13. 21. Naval battle with ironclads fighting against each other. Monitor (US) vs. Virginia/Merrimac (CSA), Union victory, allows blockade to continue
  14. 24. Army was almost equal in size to the union more military officers and military schools
  15. 25. Lee pushed most of the Union forces out of Virginia (after this, Lee decides to take war into the north)
  16. 26. president of the CSA during the Civil War
  17. 27. Commander of the Confederate Army
  18. 28. Leader of the Union Army
  19. 29. Causes of the Civil War: When Lincoln is elected in 1860, it was known that he was against slavery. Even though he announced in his inaugural address that he would not try to end slavery, it was too late, the South had already begun to secede.
  20. 30. industry and manufacturing greater density of railroad control of the Navy/Seas