Civil War Review

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  1. 2. the name given to the south after seceding from the United States
  2. 5. the first state to secede
  3. 6. The south argued that since slavery is not in the constitution it was for the states to decide if they wanted slavery
  4. 10. this order issued by Lincoln frees the enslaved people in the confederacy
  5. 11. the president of the US during the civil war
  6. 12. many of the plantations in the south used slave labor for the harvesting of this crop
  7. 13. this massive three day battle was the largest of the war
  8. 15. the south surrendered at this location
  9. 17. most historians agree that this man was the most talented general on either side of the war. He led the cofederacy.
  10. 18. a civil war is when both sides are from the same ________.
  11. 19. the president of the confederacy
  12. 22. the confederacy hoped that they could attract a ___________ ally like France or Britain.
  13. 23. this coned shaped bullet caused a tremendous amount of damage to the human body
  14. 24. the biggest advantage of the confederacy were their experienced __________.
  15. 25. this amendment ended slavery
  16. 26. this amendment guaranteed citizenship to former enslaved people
  17. 27. this was the plan of the union to surround and shut down access to the south so they couldnt get more supplies
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  1. 1. the Union was able to move supplies more easily than the confederacy because they had many more of these types of transportation.
  2. 3. by the end of the civil war it is understood that the national government is ______________ to the power of the states
  3. 4. this union general was given the order to make the south surrender. He and his men laid waste to everything of value.
  4. 7. the name of the first machine gun
  5. 8. states like missouri, kentucky, delaware and maryland that had slavery but fought for the union were called __________
  6. 9. this south used this strategy to attempt to draw in a foreign country to the side of the confederacy
  7. 14. the Union was able to produce more goods for the war because they had more of these than the south
  8. 15. this battle was Robert E Lee's first invasion of the north
  9. 16. the civil war was the ______________ in US history with approximately 700,000 deaths.
  10. 20. this amendment gave former enslaved males the right to vote
  11. 21. the south firing on this fort marked the beginning of the civil war