Unit 2: The Civil War (1861-1865)

President Abraham Lincoln

________ believes the four slave states are essential to Union success in war, choosing to ignore slavery for a little bit and keeping the four border states in the Union.

Charles Wilkes

________, a U.S. Navy Officer, captured two Confederate envoys aboard the British mail ship, the Trent.

Ulysses S Grant

The Battle of Fort Donelson was the first major Union victory in the Civil War and a major victory for ________.

Anaconda Plan

1861- 1865: General Winifred Scott creates the ________ for the Union Army.

fall of Fort Sumter

The ________ unites the Northern states, and volunteers rush to enlist in the Union Army.

John Wilkes Booth

________ held that belief, and it was the motive behind his plot to murder President Abraham Lincoln.

George McClellan

________ organized and led the Union army in the Peninsula Campaign in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862.

Black regiments

________ were commonly issued inferior equipment and were sometimes given inadequate medical treatment in racially segregated hospitals.

Bull Run

________ was the first full- scale battle of the Civil War.

David Farragut

________ was an accomplished U.S. naval officer, who received great acclaim for his service to the Union during the American Civil War.

Sherman

________ was one of the ablest Union generals in the Civil War.

President Abraham Lincoln

________ diverted several regiments of militia and volunteer troops after the Battle of Gettysburg to control the city.

Ulysses S Grant

________ led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

President Abraham Lincoln

________ issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war.

President Abraham Lincoln

________ invoked the principles of human equality contained in the Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of the Civil War with the desire for "a new birth of freedom, "as well as the all- important preservation of the Union created in 1776 and its ideal of self- government.

Ironclad warship

In the Civil War, naval ships called "Ironclads" were created and deployed to the naval battlefields to destroy wooden ships

General Robert E. Lee

Robert E. Lee commanded the Army of Northern Virginia, the most successful of the Southern armies during the American Civil War, and ultimately commanded all the Confederate armies

Clara Barton

Clara Barton was the founder of the American Red Cross