The Civil War

Union

The North (including Border States) during the Civil War

Confederacy

The South (those states that seceded) during the Civil War

Union Blockade

Made it difficult for the Confederacy to export cotton for war supplies, limiting their war effort

Emancipation Proclamation

*"Freed" enslaved people in states/parts of states that had seceded

*Purposely did NOT free enslaved people in border states

*Added a second goal to the Union war effort

Battle of Chickamauga

*Confederate victory (forced Union to retreat)

*2nd bloodiest battle of the Civil War

*TAG corner

Atlanta Campaign

*A series of battles fought to control a Georgia city because of its railroads and factories

*Led by Sherman

*Benefited Lincoln's 1864 re-election campaign

March to the Sea

*Series of battles that ended with the capture of Savannah

*Total War: its goal was to end the war by making it unbearable

*Targeted civilians

Andersonville

Civil War prisoner of war camp for captured Union soldiers with atrocious conditions

Fort Sumter

*First battle in the Civil War

*Charleston, South Carolina

*Confederate victory

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederacy

Alexander Stephens

Vice President of the Confederacy

Robert E. Lee

Top General of the Confederate Army

Ulysses S. Grant

Top General of the Union Army

William Sherman

*Union General

*ATL Campaign and March to the Sea

*Used the total war strategy

Battle of Antietam (Adv. Only)

*Paved the way for the Emancipation Proclamation

*England decided NOT to support the Confederacy

*Bloodiest one day in American history

*Union victory

Border States

*Loyal to/part of the Union

*Slave states

Anaconda Plan

Nickname for the Union blockade because its goal was to "squeeze" the Confederacy's economy to death

Abraham Lincoln

Union President during the Civil War

Union

The North during the Civil War.

Confederacy

The South during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln’s #1 Goal for the Civil War

To bring the nation (North and South) back together.