Chapter 21 - The Furnace of Civil War

Removal of Lincoln

Was the last hope for a Confederate victory

McClellans

________ army launched a waterborne attack in spring of 1862.

Grant

________ won the Battle of Chattanooga and state of Tennessee was cleared of Confederates.

Ulysses S. Grant

Became a colonel in the Union volunteer army

13th Amendment

Was passed in 1865, 8 months after the Civil War ended

Sherman

Captured Savannah on December 22, 1864 and moved up through South Carolina and captured and burned Columbia on February 17, 1865

Civil War

Claimed over 600,000 lives and cost over $15 billion

President Lincoln

________ chose Grant to lead the assault on the Confederate capital of Richmond.

General Sherman

Led the invasion of Georgia

Lincoln

Issued a final proclamation on January 1, 1863 and made the Civil War a war to end slavery

Lee

Was forced to surrender the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, effectively ending the Civil War

Congressional Committee on the Conduct of War

Formed in late 1861 and was dominated by radical Republicans who hated emancipation and the expansion of presidential power in wartime

Second Battle of Bull Run

In the ________, General Lee defeated General Popes Union forces.

preliminary Emancipation Proclamation

Antitam provided Lincoln with the military backing to issue the ________ on September 23, 1862.

General McClellan

Was given command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861

Burnside

________ was replaced by Hooker due to his defeat at Fredericksburg, Virginia on December 13, 1882.

ships

Fast ________ were developed to overcome strong blockades.

Britain

________ extended the right to vote to more of its people with the Reform Bill of 1867.

Emancipation Proclamation

Called for the freeing of all slaves in Confederate territory except in locations where the Union had mostly regained control

Andrew Johnson

________ became President.

Lincoln

________ replaced McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac with General Burnside.

Grant

Had 100, 000 men and engaged Lee in a series of battles in the Wilderness of Virginia