civil war battles campaigns & strategies

At which battle did the turning point of the U.S. Civil War occur?

Gettysburg

The Emancipation Proclamation _____.

abolished slavery in all states that were in open rebellion

The Anaconda Plan _____.

was the Union's military strategy for defeating the Confederacy

What is the significance of the Battle of Bull Run?

It proved to the North that this would not be a short and easy war as originally expected.

The Peninsula Campaign was _____.

General McClellan's plan to attack Richmond via water

What is blockade-running?

smuggling materials through a blockade

The Battle at Antietam Creek was _____.

the kind of victory Lincoln desired before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation

Blacks accounted for roughly ______ percent of the Union army.

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The Battle of Vicksburg, coming a day after the Union victory at Gettysburg, was significant because _____.

Confederate hope for foreign intervention was lost

What was the March to the Sea?

All of the above