history

• Border states


  The 4 states that did not secede from the Union
• One of the most important border states was Maryland because it was near the Union's capital
• The South's main strength


  They had superior soldiers
• The North's main goal for the war


  To restore the Union
• The South's main goal for the war

  To gain independence
• The South's plan


  Anaconda plan, where they would first blockade the South and capture Richmond
• By the end of the war, 200,000 African Americans had become Union soldiers
• The first major battle of the Civil War was the First Battle of Bull Run
• General George McClellan failed at the Battle of Bull Run
• The Union general who captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

  Ulysses S. Grant
• The Union admiral who captured New Orleans was David Farragut
• The Battle of Antietam was a narrow victory for the Union
• The Emancipation Proclamation


  Issued by Lincoln, it freed all slaves from states in rebellion and allowed African Americans to enlist in the military
• The 13th Amendment ended slavery in the country
• The Confederate spy who was executed and exiled

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow
• The main function of Florida for the Confederacy was to supply meat and salt
• Inflation occurred due to the North printing so much money
• The Confederate victory at Fredericksburg was due to trenches and high ground
• The Confederate victory at Chancellorsville was due to Stonewall Jackson flanking the Union forces
• The 54th Massachusetts was an African American regiment that fought bravely
• The Confederate victory at Chancellorsville ruined Union plans to attack Richmond
• Grant led a siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863
• Grant's new nickname


  The Butcher
• Grant had a 9-month siege at Petersburg
• The last Confederate victory that prevented Tallahassee from falling was the Battle of Natural Bridge
• Lincoln won over George McClellan because of the capture of Atlanta
• Lincoln passed the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery, after feeling he had a mandate from the election
• The general who took Atlanta, destroying everything in its path


  General Tecumseh Sherman