Civil War

What event started the Civil War?

Fort Sumter

Who won Bull Run?

the Confederates, Stonewall Jackson

New weapons that changed warfare?

the ships meniter and Merrimack, riffles, soft lead bullets, hand grenades, land mines

General Lee’s mixed success

defended Confederate capital

fort sumter

union fort in SC whose attack started the war

Anaconda plan

three-part Union strategy to win civil war

Bull run

first battle in War, won by Confederates

Stonewall Jackson

Confederate general, won bull run

George McCellan

Union general, eastern

Ulysses S. Grant

Union general, captured two Confederates forts

shiloh

two-day battle in which nearly ¼ of the 100,000 troops were killed, wounded, or captured, ended in a draw

David G. Farragut

Commander of Union arm, captured New Orleans

monitor

union ironclad ship

Merrimack

Confederate ironclad ship

Robert E. Lee

Confederate general, defended the capital, forced Union army to retreat

antietam

bloodiest clash of the war, Union victory

cotton exports

south would export to Britain

Trent

British merchant ship, British threatened war against Union

slavery and the constitution

Lincoln did not believe he had the right to end slavery

emancipation proclamation

order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind Confederates lines, unless you join the union

southern reaction to emancipation proclamation

angry and made them want to fight more

habeas corpus

court order that’s says that a person who is jailed has to appear before the court to determine why they are jailed

copperheads

northern democrats who advocated making peace with the Confederacy

conscription

drafting of civil lions to serve in army, both parties

New York’s reaction to conscription

a riot was formed because the North opposed conscription, many died

conditions in the army for African Americans

served in different regiments, faced discrimination, could not rank above captain, lacking supply’s

Massachusetts 54th

unit praised for there service, even though launch failed, bravery of soldiers pave the was fr other African Americans

Fort pillow

site of Confederates massacre if more than 200 African American war prisoners were murdered

losses and results of Gettysburg

each side lost 50,000 soldiers, North was motivated

Chancellorsville

stonewall Jackson died by accidentally getting short by his troops, Confederate victory

Gettysburg address

speech given by Lincoln to honor the dead and asked Americans to preserve the Union

Confederate situation towards end of war

southern moral had dropped and they ran out of supplys

Sherman’s march

threw out Georgia, the Carolina’s and Virginia, helped Lincoln get reelected

grant in virgina

wanted to attack again and again, kept fighting

Appomattox court house

where Lee surrenders to Grant, Confederate surrender

terms of surrender

Lincoln gave rations, allows them to go home, gave them horses witch will help with farming and let them take there side arms: wanted peace