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Civil War Review
What was the
Confederacy?
The slaveholding states that seceded
from the Union.
#1
Who was president
of the Confederacy?
#2
What category did the
North have the biggest
advantage?
#3
What event sparked
the beginning of the
Civil War?
Hint
The Confederate attack on Ft.
Sumter on April 12, 1861.
Who won the presidential
election of 1860?
What did Lincoln call his
"greatest and most
enduring contribution to
the history of the war"?
The Emancipation Proclamation
Because the Proclamation freed enslaved African Americans only in states at
war with the Union, it did not address slavery in the border states. One reason
the border states were omitted was because Lincoln did not want to endanger
their loyalty. The Proclamation, by its very existence, transformed the conflict
over preserving the Union into a war of liberation.
How could a person get
an exemption from
being drafted into the
Union army?
The civil war the first American war in which soldiers were drafted.
The South was first to employ the draft, followed by the North. In
March of 1863, the National conscription act was passed. Draftees
would be called by lottery. Once called, a draftee had the
opportunity to either pay a commutation fee of $300 to be exempt
from a particular battle, or to hire a replacement that would exempt
him from the entire war.
Substitutes were often
recent immigrants to the
U.S., but even before these
new citizens were paid
privately to serve, they
were recruited, as
evidenced by the Garibaldi
Guard poster below, which
appealed to Italian, French,
and German immigrants to
support their newlyadopted country.
Why are there often
two names for the
same battle?
Union commanders chose names based
on close rivers, creeks or mountains.
Confederate commanders typically named
battles after the nearest city or town.
Ex. Bull Run / Manassas
What was the
significance of the
Massachusetts
54th Regiment?
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment
was the first black regiment recruited
in the North.
Battle of Fort Wagner 1863
Robert Gould Shaw
What two battlefield
victories on July 4,
1863, turned the tide of
the war in favor of the
Union?
By the spring of
1864, who was the
commander of the
Union Army of the
Potomac?
Confederate Army of
Northern Virginia?
General Ulysses S. Grant
Army of the Potomac
General Robert E. Lee
Army of Northern Virginia
What Union
General led the
march through
Georgia in late
1864 and what
was the purpose
of this “March to
the Sea”?
The purpose of the march was to make
Southern civilians understand the
horrors of war and to pressure them
into giving up the struggle.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
What happened at Appomattox
Courthouse on April 9, 1865?
Lee’s surrender to Grant ended the Civil War. Grant’s
generous terms of surrender guaranteed that the United
States would not prosecute Confederate soldiers for treason.
How does the Civil War compare to
other wars in terms of total casualties?
The American Civil War is the bloodiest
war in U.S. History. About 599 deaths
per day during the span of four years.