American Civil War Study Guide

What Confederate general led the charge at Gettysburg?

General George Pickett

Who did the South lose in the Battle of Chancellorsville?

General Jackson

What Union general attacked throughout the South and burned everything in his path to weaken the Confederates?

General William Sherman

Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?

Jefferson Davis

Who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln?

John Wilkes Booth

What were four major parts of the Union's strategy to beat the South?

1) Blockade the South 2) Capture Richmond 3) Capture and control the Mississippi River 4) Cut the South's land supply lines

What years were the Civil War fought during?

1861 to 1865

How many people approximately died in the Civil War?

750,000 people

Where did the Civil War officially end?

Appomattox Courthouse

What country did the Emancipation Proclamation keep from helping the South?

Britain

Where did the Civil War begin?

Fort Sumter

What was the Confederate capital?

Richmond, Virginia

Who was the South's outstanding general throughout most of the war?

Robert E. Lee

What is the important document written by Abraham Lincoln that said all slaves in the South were free and officially made the Civil War a fight against slavery?

The Emancipation Proclamation

What is the speech given by Lincoln that made the greatest Civil War battlefield a national cemetery and moved people to see the true sacrifice of those who died?

The Gettysburg Address

What was the biggest reason why the North was able to beat the South in the Civil War?

The North had more industrial advantages over the South.

What did both sides think the war would be at first?

They thought it would be an easy victory and were excited to fight.

What is the name of the Confederate general that was known as "Stonewall"?

Thomas Jackson

Who was the outstanding Union general who won many victories in the western theater and helped turn the tides in the eastern theater?

Ulysses S. Grant

What Mississippi town was captured that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and cut the Confederacy in two?

VIcksburg

Where did the majority of Civil War battles happen?

Virginia

Underground Railroad

an organization that tried to help runaway slaves make their way to freedom

What group did the Emancipation Proclamation motivate to fight for their freedom with the Northern forces?

slaves

What battle in Maryland was the bloodiest single day of the war and the places where the first Confederate invasion of the North was stopped?

the Battle of Antietam

What was the first major battle of the Civil War?

the Battle of Bull Run

What battle in Pennsylvania proved to be the most important battle of the war that turned the tides of the war in the Union's favor and was also the bloodiest battle of the war?

the Battle of Gettysburg

What early battle in Tennessee caused more casualites than in all previous American wars combined?

the Battle of Shiloh

What was the major reason why the North did so poorly in the eastern theater for the first half of the war?

the lack of good leadership

Secede

to break away from