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