Civil War

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4. Many in the South _____ Lincoln because of his anti-expansion views on slavery.
6. In 1861 ____ became president of the Confederacy. ____ believed that the government rests on the consent of the governed.
7. ____ is the act of withdrawing from an organization.
9. The Emancipation Proclamation only freed about 20,000 ____ compared to the 3.1 million it applied to.
13. General Lee was cut off from supplies so he abandoned the Confederate Capital of this state, and retreated to North Carolina to join troops and supplies. The retreat was unsuccessful and allowed Union General Grant to overtake Lee, forcing Lee’s surrender.
14. The end of the war created bitter feelings between the North and the ____.
16. The Civil War started with the battle of this South Carolina fort. Abraham Lincoln ordered unarmed supply ships to resupply to this union fort in April of 1861. Confederate forces bombarded the fort and caused it to surrender on April 14th 1861. This became the first battle of the Civil War.
17. Women also were guides, ____, and messengers in the Civil War. Rose Greenhow and Belle Boyd were famous ___ for the South. Some women also dressed up as men to fight in the war. One famous example of this was Loretta Janeta Velazquez.
18. Some of this general’s most important victories were the Second Battle of Bull Run, the Battle of Fredericksburg, and the Battle of Chancellorsville.
19. The Southern Democrats demanded a Constitutional amendment to guarantee slavery forever. This split the Southern and Northern Democratic parties allowing Abraham Lincoln and this emerging political party to win the presidential election of 1860.
21. At first, African Americans worked as guards or servants in the war. In 1862 Congress allowed them to join the Union ___.
22. If African Americans were captured in battle they could face punishments such as enslavement or ____.
24. In Davis’s time in the government, he advocated for states' ____.
26. The all Black _________ (state) 54th regiment earned lots of respect and was very famous.
28. This Union general was also a president of the United States after the Civil War.
30. Lee was offered Command of the Union Army by ______ in April 1861. He refused and instead led the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War.
31. The Battle of Gettysburg was the deadliest _____ of the Civil War (over 50,000 casualties).
33. The Battle of Gettysburg was Confederate General Lee’s _____ invasion of the North.
35. After Confederate forces bombarded a South Carolina fort in April 1861, this many more states joined the Confederacy.
37. Ulysses S. Grant’s nicknames were “The Butcher” (after 60,000 soldiers died in one month) and “________.” (After his victories at Forts Henry and Donelson.)
38. The Emancipation Proclamation shifted the focus of the war from preserving the union to preserving the union and ______ slavery.
40. In the Civil War 620 _____ Americans were killed, More than all wars from the Revolution to WWII combined.
42. The end of the Civil War freed 4 million African Americans from this.
43. The states of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Arkansas, North Carolina, Mississippi, Virginia, and ______ made up the Confederate states of America.
44. During the Civil War _____ ran family economics (farms and businesses) while their husbands were away.
45. Both Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee attended this military academy.

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1. Some women also ran events and donated the proceeds to ___ with the war.
2. The most common way women helped out in the war were as these. Two of the most famous Civil War ____ were Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton
3. Jefferson Davis served in the military, as a _____ from Mississippi, and as Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce.
5. Even though the final outcome of the battle was a draw, Lincoln saw the Battle of Antietam as a strategic victory and used it as a way to pass the ___________ Proclamation.
8. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and gave this famous speech at the Gettysburg National Cemetery in 1863.
10. The freedom the Emancipation Proclamation promised heavily depended on the Union’s ______ victory over the Confederacy.
11. Lee’s objective in the Battle of Gettysburg was to pressure the ________ into a negotiated end to the war by causing harm on northern soil.
12. This one-day battle was the deadliest day of the Civil War (over 22,000 casualties).
15. This side of the war forced slaves to do manual labor to help the war.
20. The Battle of Antietam was the first major battle of the Civil War to take place on _____ soil.
21. General Lee surrendered his army at this court house in Virginia on April 9, 1865, marking the end of the Civil War.
23. The Union victory at this battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War.
25. This Executive Order was issued on January 1, 1863 and it announced that all slaves in rebelling states were to be freed.
27. This side won the Civil War and the U.S. was preserved.
29. “all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever ___…”
32. Lincoln’s election showed the South that they could no longer shape national events or policies. Southern states feared that with Lincoln’s election, Congress would try to abolish slavery. As a result, southern states started to enact ordinances of secession, beginning with this state.
34. Lee was famous for winning many battles in which he was greatly _______ by Union troops. (Think Battle of Chancellorsville.)
36. Lincoln was the _____ of the Union during the Civil War and was the 16th _____ of the United States.
39. The Civil War put the government in lots of debt, destroyed 40% of southern livestock, decreased Southern wealth by 60%, and ____ 25% of southern White men.
41. Grant replaced this general as general-in-chief of the Union Army in March 1864 after the Second Battle of Bull Run.