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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
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