* Your assessment is very important for improving the workof artificial intelligence, which forms the content of this project
Download The Civil War Begins Vocabulary
Red River Campaign wikipedia , lookup
Lost Cause of the Confederacy wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Antietam wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Roanoke Island wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Big Bethel wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Hatteras Inlet Batteries wikipedia , lookup
Kentucky in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Lewis's Farm wikipedia , lookup
Cavalry in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Shiloh wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Port Royal wikipedia , lookup
Tennessee in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
First Battle of Lexington wikipedia , lookup
Texas in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Confederate States of America wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Namozine Church wikipedia , lookup
Union blockade wikipedia , lookup
Battle of New Bern wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Gaines's Mill wikipedia , lookup
Secession in the United States wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Seven Pines wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Hampton Roads wikipedia , lookup
Hampton Roads Conference wikipedia , lookup
Fort Fisher wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Wilson's Creek wikipedia , lookup
Baltimore riot of 1861 wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Cedar Creek wikipedia , lookup
Conclusion of the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
United States presidential election, 1860 wikipedia , lookup
Pacific Coast Theater of the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Capture of New Orleans wikipedia , lookup
Confederate privateer wikipedia , lookup
Opposition to the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Battle of Fort Pillow wikipedia , lookup
First Battle of Bull Run wikipedia , lookup
Blockade runners of the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Alabama in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Virginia in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps wikipedia , lookup
Economy of the Confederate States of America wikipedia , lookup
Issues of the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Military history of African Americans in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Anaconda Plan wikipedia , lookup
South Carolina in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Georgia in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Border states (American Civil War) wikipedia , lookup
Union (American Civil War) wikipedia , lookup
Mississippi in the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
United Kingdom and the American Civil War wikipedia , lookup
Civil War Vocabulary and Key Terms Copy the vocabulary, terms, and definitions on a piece of paper. Secede •to withdraw from or split away from •The South seceded from the United States when Lincoln was elected president •You will also see the word secession; as in the secession of the Southern states Fort Sumter •Fort in South Carolina where the Civil War began Confederacy •What the states that had seceded called themselves •aka Confederate States of America Union •What the United States was called during the war. •Union = North •Confederacy = South Jefferson Davis •Elected president of the Confederacy Robert E. Lee •Main commander of the Confederate army Abraham Lincoln •Elected president of the United States in 1860. He was president during the Civil War. Ulysses S. Grant •The leading Union general at the end of the Civil War Border States •States between the North and the South Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland Washington D.C. •Capital of the Union Richmond, Virginia •Capital of the Confederacy King Cotton •Cotton was the most important agricultural product in the South. •The South made a great deal of money on exporting cotton Anaconda Plan •Union plan to cut the South in half making it difficult to supply the troops •Named after a big snake blockade •an effort to cut off food, supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force •The Union tried to blockade the Confederacy with the Anaconda Plan Battle of Bull Run •The first major battle of the war Battle of Antietam •The first battle fought in Union territory. •Bloodiest single day of the war Emancipation Proclamation •Document signed by Lincoln freeing the slaves in the Confederacy Battle of Gettysburg •The deadliest battle of the war •Fought on Union territory •Union victory is turning point of the war Gettysburg Address •Lincoln’s famous speech given after the Battle of Gettysburg