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Junior High History Chapter 16

1. Seven southern states seceded as Lincoln took office. 2. was a Federal outpost in Charleston, . 3. Lincoln sent ships with supplies. 4. Confederate cannons began firing on , 1861. 5. The Civil War began. 6. Reaction to the Battle of Fort Sumter. 7. Lincoln declared the South was in rebellion and asked state governors for 75,000 militiamen. 8. Slave states of the Upper South—North Carolina, , , and —seceded. 9. Border states—Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri— were slave states that did not join the Confederacy. 10. Western Virginia supported the Union and set up its own state government as West Virginia in 1863. 11. The North: 12. Population of 22 million. 13. Some 22,000 miles of railroad track. 14. More developed economy, banking system, and currency. 15. Strategy—General planned to blockade southern ports, capture the Mississippi River, and to divide the South. 16. The South: 17. Advantages of fighting on home soil – only had to defend itself until the North grew tired of fighting. 18. Strategy—tried to win European allies through cotton diplomacy. 19. Volunteer armies would fight the battles. Thousands of men joined the armies. 20. Both armies faced shortages of clothing, food, and weapons. 21. Bull Run was the first battle of the Civil War, in Virginia, July 1861. 22. of 35,000 under General McDowell. 23. Confederate army of 22,000 under General Beauregard. 24. Additional 10,000 Confederates arrived under General Johnston. 25. Confederate troops under General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson held against Union advance. 26. Confederates counterattacked. 27. Union troops retreated. 28. Confederates won , also known as the first Battle of Manassas 29. General George B. McClellan was placed in charge of 100,000 soldiers, called the Army of the Potomac. 30. Confederate army in Virginia was under the command of General Robert E. Lee. Lee forced Union army to retreat in June 1862. 31. Lincoln ordered General John Pope to march to Richmond. 32. Jackson’s troops stopped Pope’s army before it met up with the other Union army. The Second Battle of Bull Run was fought in August 1862; Confederates again forced a Union retreat. 33. Graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. 34. Lincoln asked Lee to lead Union army at start of Civil War. 35. Lee declined and resigned from the Union Army to become a Confederate general. 36. Confederate leaders wanted to follow Lee’s victories in Virginia with victory on northern soil. 37. Lee’s Confederate troops and McClellan’s Union army met along Antietam Creek in Maryland on September 17, 1862. 38. The was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history, with more than 12,000 Union and 13,000 Confederate casualties. 39. It was an important victory for the Union, stopping Lee’s northward advance. 40. controlled the sea and blockaded southern ports. 41. The southern economy was hurt because the South was prevented from selling and receiving goods. 42. Only a few small, fast ships got through blockade. 43. The Confederacy turned to a new type of warship—ironclads, or ships heavily armored with iron. 44. The Confederacy Captured Union ship Merrimack, turned it into ironclad, and renamed it the Virginia. 45. Ironclads successfully attacked the wooden ships of the Union. 46. Met by a Union ironclad, the Monitor, in battle near Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March 1862 and it forced the Confederates to withdraw. 47. The Monitor’s success saved the Union fleet and continued the blockade. 48. Ulysses S. Grant was commander of Union forces in the West. 49. Bold and restless, he wanted to attack. 50. Western campaign focused on taking control of Mississippi River. 51. Both sides claimed victory in bloody two-day in April 1862, but Grant’s forces had driven Confederates back into Mississippi. 52. The bloodiest battle of the War. 53. Fleet under Admiral captured New Orleans in April 1862. 54. Farragut ordered surrender of strategic Vicksburg, Mississippi, in May 1863. 55. Location on 200-foot-high cliffs above the Mississippi made invasion nearly impossible. 56. Grant decided to starve the city into surrender; began of Vicksburg in mid-May. 57. Facing starvation, city surrendered on July 4, 1863. 58. Confederates failed to take border state of Missouri, losing in 1862. 59. 60. On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in areas controlled by Confederacy, effective January 1, 1863. 61. African Americans gave thanks. 62. Abolitionists rejoiced. 63. Some noted that system of slavery still existed. 64. Copperheads were northern Democrats who began speaking against the war. 65. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, or protection against unlawful imprisonment, to jail the enemies of the Union. 66. Critics erupted when Congress approved the draft, or conscription. 67. For $300, men could buy their way out of service. 68. Bloody rioting broke out in , killing 100 people. 69. Civil War armies fought in ancient battlefield formations that produced massive casualties. 70. Endless rows of troops fired directly at one another. 71. Many men died to gain every inch of ground. 72. Union volunteer Clara Barton organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield. 73. This later became the Red Cross. 74. In 1863, the took place in Pennsylvania. 75. More than 51,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, captured, or were missing in three days. 76. It was a turning point victory for the Union because it stopped Lee’s plan of invading the North. 77. Gettysburg was turning point of war—Lee would never again attack in the North. 78. Victory came the same day as the Union capture of Vicksburg. 79. Lincoln gave speech called Gettysburg Address at dedication of battlefield cemetery. 80. He praised bravery of Union soldiers and renewed commitment to winning the war. 81. Civil War Labels 82. •North: Union, Blue, Federals, and Army of the Potomac. 83. •South: Confederates, Grey, Rebels, and Army of Northern Virginia.

84. Civil War Battles 85. •First Shots: Fort Sumter. 86. •First Battle: Manassas or Bull Run. 87. •First Bloody Battle: Shiloh. 88. •Bloodiest Day: Antietam or Sharpsburg. 89. Turning Points: Vicksburg and Gettysburg

90. Lincoln was impressed with Grant’s victories; gave him command of Union army. 91. Wilderness Campaign: series of battles designed to capture Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, in 1864. 92. Grant kept moving toward Richmond but suffered huge casualties and did not capture Richmond. 93. General ’s campaign to destroy South’s railroads and industries provided Lincoln his re-election victory. 94. Sherman’s 100,000 troops marched south from Tennessee in spring of 1864 to capture Atlanta, Georgia, in September, and Savannah in December. 95. Sherman practiced total war, destroying civilian and economic resources, in the hope of ruining the South’s economy and ending its ability to fight. 96. Grant broke through Confederate defenses at Petersburg, Virginia, and Lee retreated to Richmond on April 2, 1865. 97. Grant surrounded Lee’s army. 98. Lee surrendered to Grant at the small town of Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on April 9, 1865. 99. Civil War had deep and long lasting effects. 100. Almost 620,000 Americans killed 101. The South’s defeat ended slavery. 102. Southern economy was in ruins. 103.