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He was the President of the United States during the Civil War

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

This was Abraham Lincoln’s purpose in winning the civil War

What is uniting the north and south into one union, the United States of America?

Ruling by the army instead of elected government

What is martial law?

The South was known by this other name

What is the Confederacy?

Name one advantage the northern soldiers had over the southern soldiers

The North had a large population of people to work as soldiers The North had a large population of people to work as soldiers. The North had many factories to make weapons and they had many railroad tracks. The North had a large Navy and a large fleet of ships.

This man was the General of the Union Army. This general defeated the confederate army general Robert E. Lee.

Who was General Ulysses S. Grant?

He was the Confederate General

Who was Robert E. Lee?

The Confederate army won the Battle of Fredericksburg and the Battle Chancellorville. At the battle of Chancellorville this famous Confederate General was killed.

Who was Stonewall Jackson?

General Grant decided to destroy the South's ability to fight the war by sending this general to capture and destroy Atlanta.

Who was General William Tecumseh Sherman?

President Lincoln appointed this general as the commander of the Union Army. This general was too cautious and was not aggressive in his battles against the confederate soldiers. He was later replaced by General Ulysses S. Grant.

Who was General George McClellan? Eleanor M. Savko 11/17/2018 Who was General George McClellan?

Abraham Lincoln decided to issue this Proclamation to free enslaved African Americans living in the Confederacy on January 1, 1863.

What was the Emancipation Proclamation?

This person said: “On the 1st day of January, in the year of the Lord 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or...part of a state whose people...shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

Massachusetts was one of the first states to issue an all black regiment. Name this regiment.

What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?

What is this poster is telling Americans during the Civil War?

That African Americans are free. The Emancipation Proclamation.

At the start of the war African Americans were forbid to fight in the war as soldiers. In 1862 Congress repealed this law and allowed free and escaped Africans to fight in the war. Why do you think Congress repealed this law?

Congress needed to change the focus of the war from a fight over unionization to a fight over slavery. This would help Congress gain more support for the war.

of the American Red Cross. She was the founder of the American Red Cross.

Who was Clara Barton?

She helped reform mental hospitals and prisons.

Who was Dorothea Dix?

This is the place General Robert E. Lee surrendered.

What was the Appomattox Courthouse?

When the war is over General Grant said: “The war is over, the rebels are our countrymen again.” Explain this statement.

All residents of the south were now citizens of the United States of America.

This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.

What was the Battle of Gettysburg?

Congress passed this law to help pay for the Civil War

What was the federal income tax?

Describe the medical conditions during the Civil War.

Surgeons routinely cut off injured legs of wounded men. Prison camps had terrible conditions. One Union prisoner out of every three died from starvation or disease.

Name the speech this quote was taken from: “We here are highly resolve that these dead shall not die in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

What was the Gettysburg Address?

Name the two ironclad ships that met in battle during the Civil War.

What was the Merrimack and the Monitor?

Robert E. Lee left his battle plans out for the northern army to see at this abandoned campsite during this battle.

What was the Battle of Antietam?