Download The U.S. Civil War 1861

The U.S. Civil War
1861 - 1865
An Overview of Events, People, Places and Ideas
Name
Union or Confederate? Summarize his contribution to the
North or South?
Civil War
(Write both: Union/North)
Jefferson Davis
Confederate/South
President of the Confederate
States of America
Abraham
Lincoln
Union/North
Ulysses S.
Grant
Union/North
Union/North general. Was
made Commander of All the
Union Armies by Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Confederate/South
Confederate/South general.
Was made Commander of All
the Confederate Armies by
Davis
President of the Union (United States)
Significant Event:
Firing on Fort
Sumter
Antietam
What happened?
(Summarize)
Confederate forces in
S. Carolina opened fire
on the federal fort on 412-1861
Why is it important? (Find the main Idea)
This is the beginning of the
war. Fort Sumter surrenders.
● Major Union victory
Lee and his
● Single bloodiest day of battle in U.S.
Confederate Army
History.
invade Union territory ● Approximately 23,000 are killed or
in Maryland; after a
wounded.
brutal battle he
● Union Gen. McClellan does not
retreats.
pursue (gets fired)
● Allows Lincoln to issue
Emancipation Proclamation from a
position of strength
Significant
Event:
Emancipation
Proclamation
What happened?
(Summarize)
Lincoln issues an
executive order freeing
all slaves held in
Confederate territory.
Why is it important?
(Find the main Idea)
● makes the war about
freedom and not only about
preserving the Union.
● opens the Union army to
enlistment of AfricanAmericans
● Removes Britain as a
potential ally of the
Confederacy
Name
Union or Confederate? Summarize his contribution to the
North or South?
Civil War
(Write both: Union/North)
William Carney
Union/North
First African-American to earn
the Congressional Medal of
Honor; 54th Massachusetts
Regiment, United States Army
Union/North
First Hispanic-American to
earn the Congressional Medal
of Honor; United States Navy
Phillip Bazaar
Vicksburg
The City of Vicksburg,
Mississippi surrendered
to the Union Army after
being under siege for a
month.
● The Union now controls
the entire Mississippi
River
● The Confederacy is cut
in two.
Surrender at
Appomattox
Court House
Gen. Lee surrenders
to Gen. Grant.
Essentially, this is the end
of the war.
Lincoln is killed. That’s
Southern sympathizer, important!
Lincoln’s
Assassination
John Wilkes Booth
shoots Lincoln at Ford’s
Theater during a
performance. He
escapes, but is captured
and killed by troops 10
days later