The Civil War

• Anaconda Plan//Union strategy


  Defeat confederacy and rebellion by blocking south ports and controlling the MS river which would cut and isolate south made by Winfield Scott
• Winfield Scott


  War hero who captured Mexico City
• Border States


  five slave states MS, KY, MA, DL, WV they did not secede, Lincoln said was was protecting union other than abolishing slaavery
• Confederacy States of America


  Government establishment after seven south states secede from union later four states join
• Jefferson Davis

  CSA president, Democrat managed south obtained weapons
• Fort Sumter

  SC location confederate forces fired 1st shots in civil war after union forces attempted to supply the fort
• The Alabama

  British built, confederate warship that raids union shipping during war one of many for confederacy