Chapter 15: Civil War

• North's Advantages:

  Larger population of free men

  More industry

  More ships

  Better Banking

  More resources

  More railroads

  Lincoln's Leadership
• South won the first battle of Bull Run
• The fighting at Gettysburg lasted three days and the Union won
• The Unions Border States are Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia, Delaware, and Maryland.
• The 13th Amendment freed all slaves
• The Emancipation of Proclamation freed slaves only in the South.
• The South was defeated in Shermans March to sea.
• Andrew Johnson became president when Lincoln died
• Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865
• Average Union soldiers aged from 20-45 (had to register)
• The Unions strategy for victory agains the south was the Anaconda Plan
• Anaconda Plan: Squeeze the life out of the South
• Battle Of Shiloh:

  April 6, 1862

  Union won
• The nickname of a Union soldier was a yankee
• The nickname for a confederate soldier was a rebel.
• General Grant's nickname after the battle of Fort Donelson was the "unconditional surrender"
• The North took control of the Mississippi to eliminate the South's exports.
• The Bull Run was fought on July 21, 1861
• The Battle of Antietam was considered the deadliest day of the Civil War
• General Lee and General Stonewall Jackson were the reason of the Souths military success.
• The initial goal for the North was to bring the South back to the Union
• The Uss Monitor and the Css Virginia were two ironclads that fought against each other in the civil war.
• The main goal of the South was to defend its self from the North
• Richmond Virginia was the capital of the Confederacy
• Dorthea Dix convinced the officials to let women become nurses and even served through the war with ought any pay.
• Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9th, 1865
• The 54th Massachusetts served in the Battle of Oluster in Florida
• Casualty- The death, capture, or missing of a soldier
• Entrenched- To be placed within a trench
• The Mississippi River was important to the South because it was its main transportation and supplier.
• The South invaded the North because they had no access to the Mississippi River.
• Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to get help for the North and prevent the South from getting foreign help.
• Norths wins the Mississippi River from a victory at Vicksburg
• Union discovered the South's plans, however, due to Mclellan's haste to act, they have to fight in the Battle of Antietam.
• Lincoln signs the Proclamation on Jan 1. 1863
• When the proclamation was issued, 1/6th of slaves fled to Union controlled areas.
• Harriet Tubman: Spied for the North
• Rose O'Neal Greenhow - entertained Union leaders and passed info onto the South.
• Belle Boyd- Spied for the Confederacy
• Loretta Janeta Velazquez- Fought for the South