Civil War (Battles and Important People)
Ulysses S. Grant
General of the Union Army during the Civil War, and he won the first major Union victories of the war.He became the 18th President of the United States in 1868.
states' rights
the right of states to limit the power of the federal government
Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln delivered it on November 19, 1863, to dedicate a cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In his two minute speech, Lincoln spoke to the fact that our nation was "conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." He suggested that the Civil War was a test of whether the nation and democracy would survive.
Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln issued it in 1863. This executive order declared all slaves in rebelling states to be free. This event expanded the goals of the war from saving the Union to freeing the slaves. As a result of the Proclamation, many escaped slaves, former slaves, and freemen joined the Union army.
William Carney
African American Soldier Medal of Honor for saving the American Flag
Lincoln's Second Inagural Address
After Abraham Lincoln's reelection as President in 1864. At the time of this speech, the Civil War was nearing an end, and Lincoln addressed the future of the country. Lincoln called for healing and peace, saying, "With malice toward none; with charity for all... let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds..."
Abraham Lincoln
As President of the United States during the Civil War, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation that declared freedom for slaves within the Confederacy. He also delivered the famous Gettysburg Address dedicating the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On April 14, 1865, he was assassinated.
Civil War
Between the North (Union) and the South (Confederate States of America). The war began on April 12, 1861, with the Confederates firing on Fort Sumter. It ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. Historians believe there were many causes of the Civil War, including sectionalism, states' rights, and slavery.
Phillip Bazaar
Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. Hispanic sailor who aided the Union victory in the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
He rejected Abraham Lincoln's offer to command the Union Army at the start of the Civil War. He instead seceded with his home state of Virginia and became the commander of the Confederate Army.
sectionalism
Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
Fort Sumter
On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired the first shots of the Civil War in the harbor of Charlestown, South Carolina. The Confederates bombarded the fort for thirty-four hours until Union forces were forced to surrender. This marked the beginning of the Civil War.
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Southern sympathizer, shot President Lincoln in the head at Ford's Theater. After Lincoln's death, control over Reconstruction of the South fell to his successor, Vice President Andrew Johnson, and the Radical Republicans in Congress.
Lee's Surrender at Appomattox
On April 9, 1865, five years after the Civil War began, General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate troops, surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union troops, at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederacy. In his inaugural address as President of the Confederate States of America, he argued that separation from the Union was a "necessity, not a choice."
Battle of Vicksburg
The battle took place during the Civil War in 1863. Union forces seized control of the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg, Mississippi, thus effectively gaining control of the Mississippi River. As a result, the South was split in half, and the North was able to prevent the shipment of troops and supplies along the river.
Battle of Gettysburg
This battle took place during the Civil War in 1863. This battle lasted for three days and ended in a Union victory. Some historians estimate as many as 50,000 were killed or wounded, and its outcome was considered to have been the turning point of the Civil War.
Battle of Antietam
This battle took place during the Civil War in Maryland, 1862. This was one of the bloodiest single day battles in American history. Nearly 23,000 men were killed or wounded. Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation soon after and thus expanded the goals of the war to include the abolition of slavery.
slavery
humans owning other humans and forcing them to work for free
The Union
the North, all the states that did not secede
The Confederacy
the states that seceded and started their own country based on slavery
secession
the withdrawal of a state from a union
1861 - 1865
years the Civil War was fought