Civil War project

Secession

An act of formally withdrawing from the Union.

Civil War

A war between opposing groups of citizens within the same country.

Sectionalism

Putting local interests ahead of national interests.

Union

The name given for the states that remained loyal to the United States during the Civil War, also called the North or the United States of America.

Confederacy

The name for the group of states that left the U.S to form their own country; also called the South or the Confederate States of America.

Federal

A term used to describe people who supported the Union.

Rebel

A term used to describe people who supported the Confederacy.

Casualty

A person injured or killed during the war.

Emancipation

The fact or process of being set free.

Reconstruction Era

The twelve years after the Civil War which were filled with change and violence.

Gettysburg Address

A powerful speech that Abraham Lincoln gave during a cemetery dedication about equality and preserving the nation.

End of War

The war ended when Lee surrendered to Grant at the Union General Court House.

Women

kept the country afloat by working as nurses, spies possibly soldiers.

African Americans

They contributed to the Union by joining the army after the Emancipation Proclamation.

Medicine and Disease

Doctors had limited supplies and many soldiers died of diseases.

Fort Sumter

The Civil War began in Fort Sumter where Confederate forces fired and this officially started the war.

Bull Run

the first major land battle.

Antietam

when the union stopped the confederate from invasion of the north.

Emancipation Proclamation

Issued by Abraham Lincoln, it declared that enslaved people in the Confederate states were to be set free, which added a moral cause to the Union's fight.

Gettysburg

The turning point of the Civil War, this battle resulted in a significant Union victory and marked the beginning of the decline of the Confederacy.