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The Civil War: Study Guide
I. After the American Revolution
A. After the American Revolution, our founding fathers got together to write:
1. __________ - created on ______________. It defines the _______ major branches of
government and how it should rule. The Constitution is also a ______ of the _______ and ________
that we have in the U.S.
2. The __________________ is a part of the constitution and plays an important part in how
our government is run and how laws are made.
II. What did this lead to?
A. Due to the natural resources and religious freedoms in the U.S., ___________
__________ occurred. The people thought they could build a better life here.
B. Starting in the 1800s, hundreds of thousands of Americans decided to move away from the
original 13 colonies and move west. This was called _________ ___________.
C. On January 24, 1848, James Marshall discovered GOLD at Sutter’s Mill in California. This was
called The ______ ______. The early gold-seekers were called the ______ ________; they traveled
to California by sail boat and in covered wagons across the continent.
New methods of
developed as __________came into regular service and _________ were
built. The business of agriculture was started on a wide scale throughout the state. However, the Gold
Rush also had negative effects: _______________were attacked and pushed off traditional lands, and
____________caused ____________ harm.
III. Civil War
A. The Civil War lasted from __________. The southern states wanted to have their
__________and be able to _______what laws to have. The north did _____want the country to be
broken apart.
B. The southern states seceded (LEFT) from the union after Lincoln was elected. They formed
their own nation, _____________________________.
C. Some southern states decided they had no choice. They decided to secede, or leave, the
United States. ____________was the first to leave the Union and form a new nation called the
__________________. Four months later,_____ other states seceded. They were Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee
joined them. The people of these states elected ________________as president of the
Confederacy.
IV. The Union
A. The northern states were called the______. In Charleston, South Carolina there was a Union
fort called___________. The Union soldiers refused to leave this fort, so the Confederates fired
cannons at the fort on April 12, l861. This was the beginning of the ______ ______.
B. The ________was devastated. _____________surrendered to ____________ on April 9,
1865 at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. The war was over.
V. The Flags
A. Draw the Confederate Flag:
B. Draw the Union Flag:
VI. The Emancipation Proclamation
A. Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation in______. To emancipate means to____ ______.
A proclamation is an_____________.
B. The Emancipation Proclamation _____the slaves in all the states that had left the Union.
C. So on New Year's Day in____, President Lincoln put his Emancipation Proclamation to work. He
declared the slaves in all Confederate areas to be "__________."
VII. Leaders of The Civil War
1. Abraham Lincoln
A. Born in a ___________near Hodgenville, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809.
B. When he was president he was also the Commander-in-Chief of the___________, which is the
highest-ranking military officer.
C. In 1863 he issued the _____________________which declared that all slaves in the
Confederate States would be free.
D. The same year he gave a great ________called the ________________at a cemetery in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
E. President Lincoln was _____________ on April 14, 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at a theater in
Washington DC.
2. Jefferson Davis
A. Jefferson Davis was the President of the____________________.
B. Jefferson Davis was born in the _______and grew up on a___________________.
3. Ulysses S. Grant
A. ________of the_____________.
B. General Robert E. Lee, The leader of the Confederate Army had to ________ to General
Grant in 1865.
C. Later General Grant became __________of the United States________.
4. Robert E. Lee
A. the South's ______general during the Civil War.
B. General Lee wanted to ________for the South and remain loyal to his home state.
C. Lee felt he had to _________to the North to stop so many of his soldiers from being killed.