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1. a. ____________ a. loyalty to the interests of one’s own region of the country,
e.g., North v. South
b. Popular
________________
c. Uprising
d. ____________
2. Fort _____________
3.
Why does the South think
they can secede from Union?
b. people decide on whether to be a free state or slave state
c. ___________________
d. Heavily populated
* First shots of Civil War fired by the C________________
in the year _________
* Union fort in Charleston Harbor, S.C.
* Lincoln was trying to get supplies to the fort
- South thinks they can secede under _______ Amendment
(States Rights)
4. Confederate States of America Nation formed by the ____________ states when they
(CSA) or ___________________
seceded from the union
7. _______________
Plan
Union’s initial plan to block (or strangle) the South by cutting off
supply routes on ________________river, Gulf of Mexico/Atlantic
Ocean._______________ – strategy to block or stop supplies
* 1st battle of the Civil War. _____________, VA.
8. Battle of ____ _____ _____________ Won. Confederate General during this
battle was Thomas “_______________” Jackson
 __________ population
 85% of nations ____________
9. Advantages of the North
 70% of ____________. Fighting an _________ war
 -Knew how to n_____________ the land better,
10. Advantages of the South
 _______ Generals, Fighting a ______________ war
11. ___________ States Slave states that bordered the North where slavery was
illegal. Were important to both sides during the war.
12. ________ Lincoln
13. Jefferson ________
14. Ulysses S.
________
15. __________ E. Lee
16. Life in the Army
18. Battle of _________
* _______________ of the United States of America
* Taught himself to read and write then became a lawyer
and member of the House of Representatives
* Issued the _______________ Proclamation and
_________________ Address
* President of the _____________ States of America
* Wealthy, well-educated
* Senator before becoming President of CSA
__________ General who won Siege of Vicksburg and other
Western Theater battles.
______________ General who became the South’s
greatest military leader
________ ______ – Civil War bullets that fractured bones
and caused infections. _____________ – ships covered with
iron plates. Food was ____________
Bloodiest battle in ____ day; stopped Lee from N_________
invasion into Maryland
19. What is the
___________ Proclamation?
20. Why did Lincoln
issue the Emancipation
_____________ ?
21. Why did Lincoln
NOT free slaves in the
Border States?
22. ___________ Prison
23. Siege of ________
24. ___________ Battle
25. Gettysburg ________
26. _________ Charge
27. War Affects Society
Lincoln freed all ________ in Confederate states after Battle of
__________ in January, 1863. (NOT FREE IN BORDER STATES)
*to discourage Southerners
*to encourage slaves to escape and fight for the ________
*Slaves that stayed in South worked slower
*booster the North’s morale
Border States had slaves (__________, Kentucky, Maryland,
Delaware, West Virginia)
*Border states supported UNION so Lincoln didn’t want them to
___________ or break away from the UNION)
Camp in the South- more than 13,000 died from starvation,
_________ + exposure. ___________- limited quantities of
resources that are not enough to satisfy human wants or
needs.Why did so many soldiers die of disease: ___ hygiene.
Blockade of CSA in Vicksburg, Mississippi by Ulysses S.
_________ after 6 weeks of starvation, CSA gives up; last
stronghold to go in Western Theater allowing Union to control
______________River. John C. _________- Led
Confederate army in Vicksburg. _________ – to surround a
town and force its surrender
__________ battle on America soil; __ days; stopped Lee’s
invasion of the North; Pennsylvania; Union wins and the battle
is known as the ___________ Point of the War
__________ famous speech after three-day battle in
Pennsylvania; The speech honored the 51,000 soldiers who
died so the N__________ will endure.
CSA General Pickett f_________ to take Cemetery Ridge 3rd
day, lost ½ of 5,500 CSA soldiers in his charge;
1. Political changes: _______ ___________ became a new
state and the name ____________ was given to Northern
Democrats who opposed the Civil War
2. Social changes: ____________ required men to serve in
the military and ________ began working, for example,
_______ __________, was a Famous nurse who started the
American Red Cross.
3. __________ changes: _________ was an increase in the
cost of goods and a decrease in the value of money.
________ _______ raised money for the war and reduced
what a person made from a job.
_________ American soldiers who fought bravely in Civil War
at Fort __________ pg. 541
28. 54th
_____________ Infantry
29. _________ to the
_________ General Wm. T. Sherman slashed and burned his
way thru Georgia. Ended in _______________, GA
________
30. ________ Warfare
31. ______________ Court
House
Union General Sherman’s approach to war in which railroad
tracks were __________, crops burned, houses looted.
Place where Robert E. _________ SURRENDERS to Ulysses
S. ___________ on April 9th , _______. (year)