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Civil War Timeline
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____________ Elected in November 1860
South _____________ seceded in December- followed by Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Texas
February - _______________ States of America formed; _________________ chosen as
President of the Confederacy
________________, South Carolina- first shots fired and war begins
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Arkansas join Confederacy
Slave States remaining in the Union (North) – Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland Delaware,
and ________________________ (western counties of Virginia that broke away when
Virginia seceded) are known as ______________ States.
_____________ chosen as the leader of the Confederate Army
Anaconda Plan- ________________ strategy to win the war by cutting off the south from
_____________ and ____________from other countries.
Strategy of the South: fight a ___________________ war (home turf)
North- also known as ____________, _____________, the Blue
South- also known as _____________, Johnny Reb, the ___________.
Battle of ________ _______; Confederate General “_________________” Jackson
forces Union to retreat.
Julia Ward Howe writes “____________________________________.”
Comparison of the North and South
Advantages
NORTH
More resources __________ and raw materials
Larger population to draw on for __________
Better ________________ system
More farmland dedicated to ______________
Disadvantages
NORTH
_____________ military leadership
Fighting _____________ from home
Soldiers lacked ___________________
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SOUTH
Better ________________________
Motivation- fighting for __________ and way of
life
Fighting on ______________________
SOUTH
Northern _______________ hindered trade
__________- no gold/silver backing currency
Farmland dedicated to _________________
_________________ population
Monitor vs. Merrimack- first battle of _________ ships (ironclads)
Battle of Antietam- 1st attempt by South to invade the North: more ________ in
________ day than any other day in American history.
Emancipation Proclamation- order signed by Lincoln freeing __________ (only in CSA)
Siege of Vicksburg- southern city put under siege by Union General Ulysses Grant; the
northern victory here gave the Union control of the _______________ splitting the south
in two.
Battle of Gettysburg- 2nd attempt by South to invade North; Northern victory; the largest
battle in the Western Hemisphere; considered the ______________________ of the war.
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1864
Gettysburg ______________ given by Lincoln dedicating a military cemetery at
Gettysburg. His best known speech especially the end when he talks about
_______________ of the people, by the people, and for the people.
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1865
____________________ takes charge of the Union Army- was only Union General
willing to go TO the enemy
Copperheads - __________________ against the war
Lincoln reelected- in his ____________________he lays out his plan to reconcile
with the South A famous line from his speech is “ with ________________toward
none and ____________for all”
Sherman’s ______________________- Union march through ____________ cutting
the south in half; he believed in total war- ________________ anything that might
help the south keep fighting.
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Surrender at _________________________________- Robert E. Lee surrenders to
Ulysses S. Grant signaling end of the war
 Lincoln is assassinated by _______________________________ at ___________
theater just a few days after the surrender.
 Andrew _________________ becomes president; plans to follow Lincoln’s lenient
plan for reconciliation
Reconstruction refers to the _________________ after the Civil War when the southern states would
be readmitted to the U.S. Some northerners (known as ________________
Republicans) believed that the south should be punished in some way for leaving the
union and causing the war. Lincoln had been against this idea.
 When Andrew Johnson tried to follow through on Lincoln’s plans, he angered the
radical Republicans. They came up with a way to ________________ him. He was
found not guilty (by one vote!) at his trial and he completed his term as president.
Civil War Amendments
 13th Amendment- _______________________ in the U.S.
 14th Amendment- made all _____________ born or naturalized in the U.S. citizensincluding former slaves.
 15th Amendment- stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting because of
their ______________________. Congressional Medal of Honor Winners
Freedman's Bureau
 Federal agency set up to help former slaves after the Civil War
by offering ___________________________________
Terms
 _____________________- northerners who moved to the South after the war for
economic and political gain
 _____________________- southerners who helped carpetbaggers
Special Honors
 _________________________ was the first African American to win the Congressional
Medal of Honor
 _________________________ was the first Hispanic American to win the Congressional
Medal of Honor
 _________________________ is significant because she treated injured soldiers in the
war & went on to found the American Red Cross