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  1. 3. The military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the Civil War. The main purpose of this plan was to defeat the rebellion by blockading southern ports and controlling the Mississippi River. This would cut off and isolate the South from the outside world.
  2. 5. Was a Union general during the Civil War, playing a crucial role in the victory over the Confederate States. He led Union forces in crushing campaigns through the South. His efforts and success helped Lincoln to be re-elected in 1864.
  3. 8. A Confederate general who participated in the battle of Gettysburg, when his divisions were decimated during a massive frontal assault that became known as “Pickett’s Charge”. Then he commanded troops in North Carolina and later participated in the defense of Petersburg.
  4. 9. The battle that marked the beginning of the American Civil War (April 12–13, 1861).
  5. 11. Also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing. One of the best changes the Confederacy had to win the war in the West. Took place on April 6 to April 7, 1862. End with a Union victory. It also signaled the start of the terrible death and suffering that the rest of the war would bring. And gave the Union army greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
  6. 12. Fought December 15-16, 1864, shattered the Confederate Army of Tennessee and marked the end of major Confederate offensives in the Western theater during the Civil War.
  7. 14. A method consisting of destroying civilian and economic resources, destroying railways, bridges, crops, livestock, and other resources while burning down plantations and freeing slaves.
  8. 15. The slave states that didn’t leave the Union in the Civil War. These states included Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri. West Virginia, which separated from Virginia during the war, also considered a border state.
  9. 17. From April 30-May 6, 1863. Was a huge victory for the Confederacy and General Robert E. Lee’s perfect battle during the Civil War. Ruined the Union plans to invade Richmond. Although the Confederacy has lost General Jackson.
  10. 19. Was a major general during the Civil War. He twice was commander of Army of the Potomac, the Union’s largest army. He attacked Richmond very slowly through the peninsula between the james and York river. He fought as general-in-chief of the Union army until being removed by Lincoln in 1862.
  11. 20. The withdrawal of 11 slave states from the Union during 1860–1861.
  12. 22. Where one of the major battles took place during the civil war (July 1 to July 3, 1863), was a Union victory that stopped Confederate General Robert E. Lee's second invasion of the North, the battle with the most sacrifices, and also where an important address of Lincoln takes place (November 19, 1863) that is less than 275 words.
  13. 23. The one that led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War. Was the only general during the Civil War who received the surrender of three Confederate armies.
  14. 24. Loyal to Virginia, a commander of the Confederate States Army, he had commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War, and ultimately commanded all the Confederate armies.
  15. 25. Also known as the Battle of Manassas. The 1st battle marked the first major land battle of the American Civil War ( July 21, 1861). This battle helped boost Southern morale and made the North realize that this would be a long war. The 2nd battle was arguably Lee’s greatest victory of the war (August 28–30, 1862). But many of the wounded were left on the battlefield for 3 to 4 days ( The Three day battle). Thus began the Maryland Campaign, which led to the Battle of Antietam.
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  1. 1. Used to provide revenue for the government, arms for the military, and the economic power for a diplomatic strategy of the Confederate nation. It made the density of the slave population increased. Provided the economic underpinning of the Southern economy. And considered by the Confederate to be the cause will be supported by UK,…
  2. 2. A skilled military tactician, he served as a Confederate general under Robert E. Lee in the Civil war, leading troops at Manassas, Antietam and Fredericksburg. He died after he was accidentally shot by a Confederate soldier at a major battle.
  3. 4. Was one of the most important events of the Civil War, the “ bloodiest single day” in American military history (September 17, 1862). The battle marked the culmination of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the Northern states. And was the Union victory there led to issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
  4. 6. Here, on April 9, 1865, Virginia. General Robert E Lee surrendered his Army of northern Virginia to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. A battle lasted only a few hours, effectively the four-year Civil War to an end.
  5. 7. While their navies still relied on wooden ships, both sides had gambled on building it, vessels that boasted steam engines, hulking cannons and armor plating protecting their hulls - one of the most influential arms races of the Civil War. Signifies the beginning of modern warfare in the naval field.
  6. 10. It began on May 18, 1863 and lasted over a month until July 4, 1863. Was a great victory for the Union. It gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union. Around the same time with the Battle of Gettysburg. These two victories marked the major turning point of the Civil War in favor of the Union.
  7. 13. As president of the Confederacy throughout its existence during the Civil War. He presided over the South’s creation of its own armed forces and acquisition of weapons. Who chose Robert E. Lee as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia in June 1862.
  8. 16. Lincoln issued it on January 1, 1863 Broadened the goals of the Civil War, making freeing the slaves an explicit goal of the Union war effort. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically.
  9. 18. The 16th (Republican) President of the United States, who leading the country during the American Civil War, pushed for the freedom of all slaves throughout the nation, abolish slavery but he was not an abolitionist.
  10. 21. Played the central role during the Civil War. The primary catalyst for secession. The Confederacy’s early military successes depended significantly on it. Had a great impact on the economy of the South. And one of the main causes in the civil war.