Civil War - 8.1
Who had a trained military (army and navy)
Union (North)
Who controlled Fort Sumter at the start of the Civil War
Union had control of this southern (Confederate) garrison
General Ulysses S. Grant
Union leader of the army
Anaconda Plan
Union strategy to capture the Mississippi River and spit the Confederacy in half so that they could squeeze it to death
another name for the Civil War
War of Northern Aggression
why did the Confederate army leaders want to protect the ports
to keep trade open with foreign markets for goods and other things they needed for the war
blockade
to obstruct or prevent access to
What were submarines used for in the South?
to sink Union ships to open the ports
four ways that you could join the army during the Civil War
voluntary Bounty (money) Bounty jumpers men paid somebody else to take there place Drafting
The Confederacy's plan to withhold cotton from France and Great Britain in the attempt to get these countries to side with the Confederacy.
King Cotton diplomacy
who always fought on their own land
South (Confederacy)
first state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
What started the civil war?
The attack of Fort Sumter
conscription
The drafting of men to serve in the army
King Cotton diplomacy
The south's political strategy during the Civil War
What did Alexander Stephens call the Civil War
War between The States
How many americans died during the cival war?
Over 620,0000
Which federal garrison in South Carolina was captured by confederate forces with in weeks of Lincoln's election?
Fort Sumter
How many different sites on US soil was the war fought
10,000
date that the confederates opened fire on Fort Sumter
April 12
who fired the first shots on Fort Sumter
Confederate forces
General Robert E. Lee
Confederate leader of the army
strategies
a plan of action to accomplish something
blockade runners
a ship that slipped around or through a blockade that was from the Confederacy (South)
ironclad
an armored ship used by the Union (North)
what advantages did the South (Confederacy) have over the North (Union)
better military equipment (but didn't know how to use) fought on own land
swift raiders
fast, lightly armed ships used by the Confederate Navy to capture Union merchant ships and draw the Union Navy away from their blockade duties (so the Confederacy could get past the blockades more easily)
Disadvantages the South (Confederacy) had versus the North (Union)
fewer people (and most were slaves) fewer factories limited railroad that could not carry heavy things needed war like equipment and troops (people)
General William T. Sherman
led a devastating march through Georgia that destroyed much of the state
James Andrews
led the raid on the General at Big Shanty
bounty jumpers
men who took the bounty to join the army and who then deserted, changed their names, joined a different regiment, and collected another bounty.
Advantages the North (Union) had over the South (Confederacy)
more people more factories and labor railroad transportation wealthy people
Why did King Cotton diplomacy fail?
the Union convinced France and Great Britain to buy cotton from Egypt instead of the Confederacy
