American History Chapter 16

April 12, 1861

Battle of Fort Sumter; start of the War

January 1863

Emancipation Proclamation

July 1863

Battle of Gettysburg; turning point of the war

April 9, 1865

Appomattox Court House

1861-1865

The Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

(1861-1865)

Andrew Johnson

(1865-1869)

Fort Pickens

Union fort within seceded states that never fell into Confederate hands

Robert Anderson

Union commander at Ft. Sumter who surrendered to Confederate P.G.T. Beauregard

Compact

Treaty between independent nations to act as a group

East

Capture the Confederate Capital, Richmond VA

West

Capture the Mississippi River

Irvin McDowell

Union General

George B. McClellan

replaced McDowell for the Union

David Farragut

Captured Alabama’s Mobile Bay

USS Merrimack

Became CSS Virginia; 1st ironclad vessel (Confederate)

USS Monitor

Union ironclad ship

Ulysses S. Grant

“Unconditional Surrender” Grant; took control of Tennessee (Fort Henry and Donelson) for the Union (finalized at the Battle of Shiloh)

Island Number 10

Cut off the northern end of the Mississippi

Admiral Farragut

took the port of New orleans

Fort Sumter

What was the 1st battle of the Civil War

P.G.T. Beauregard

Who did Robert Anderson surrender to

North

What region supported Lincoln’s decisions

South

What region did not support Lincoln’s decisions

The Confederate States of America

What did the Southern states create

The Union of America

What did the Northern states form

West Virginia

What was the state that formed when several counties in Virginia separated

Richmond VA

What is the capital of the Confederacy

CSS Virginia

What did the USS Merrimack become

The 1st Battle of Bull Run

What battle did General Joseph Johnson and Thomas Stonewall defeat the Union

Mobile Bay

What did David Farragut capture in Alabama

Union ironclad ship

What was the USS Monitor

Battle of Shiloh

What battle did Grant take control of Tennessee for the Union

New Orleans

Whose port did Admiral Farragut take

Second battle of Bull Run

John Pope (Union General) lost to Lee and Jackson

Antietam Creek

The bloodiest single day of the Civil War

A.E. Burnside

known for his leadership at Fredericksburg;

Emancipation Proclamation (Jan. 1, 1863)

ordered slaves be freed in states at arms against the Union

Joe Hooker

took command of the Union troops and was defeated by Lee and Jackson

Chancellorsville

The South’s costliest victory

Gettysburg

Turning point of the Civil War

Chattanooga and Chickamauga

The union (Rosecrans and Thomas) defeated the Confederates (Bragg)

William T. Sherman

Grant’s 2nd in Command who was given the task of capturing Atlanta

April 1865

Richmond fell to the Union Army

National Banking Act

Encouraged the sale of war bonds and established a new banking system

Napoleon III

ruler in France who supported Southern independence

Trent

A British streamer harboring confederate commissioners to Europe

Robert E. Lee

Who would McClellan fail against

George Meade

Who defeated Lee in a 3-day battle at Gettysburg, PA

Grant

Who did Lincoln made as the commander of the Union Army

Atlanta

What city was William T. Sherman tasked to capture

Appomattox Court House, VA

Where did Lee surrender his army

Increased taxes, war bonds, and green backs

What did the Union government do to fund the war

Draft system

What system did both sides use in the war

Cotton and Colonies

What 2 reasons why did England and France support the South

Alabama

What was a British-built warship used by the South against the North

13th Amendment (1865)

officially banned slavery in all states and territories of America

Andrew Johnson

Lincoln’s running mate; Lincoln won an easy victory

John Wilkes Booth

Assassinated President Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865

National Union Party

What would the Republicans be called in the election of 1864

620,000

How many people approximately were killed in the Civil War

Disease

What did most people in the war died of

April 14, 1865

On what date did John Wilkes Booth assassinate President Lincoln

Dwight L. Moody

Led revival in Chicago prior to the war

American Bible Society

Distributed Biblical literature to Union and Confederate troops during the Civil War

Sanitary Commission

Forerunner to the American Red Cross

John William Jones

One of the most famous chaplains of this time; wrote books about Christianity’s influence on soldiers

Salmon P. Chase

“In God We Trust”

Oliver Howard

Howard Theological Seminary for black Americans

Samuel Chapman Armstrong

Hampton University for freed slaves

William N. Pendleton

Southern general who was an ordained minister