1. Before President-elect Abraham Lincoln took office,_______________ states had seceded from the union.
2. In April 1861 Union forces surrendered _________________, an important federal outpost in the south, to the confederates.
3. The new capitol of the Confederacy, _________________Virginia, replaced to the former capitol of Montgomery Alabama.
4. The main confederate offensive plan focused on seizing _______________.
5. In the ________________________________, President Lincoln spoke of what the Battle of Gettysburg meant to the soldiers who fought it and to the Union they represented.
6. The first state to secede from the Union was _______________________________________.
7. In 1861 delegates from the seceding states met to form a new nation called the ______________________________________.
8. In 1861 Jefferson Davis was elected __________________________.
9. The First major clash of Union and Confederate forces took place at the Battle of ___________________________________.
10. Which Battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military History?
11. The confederacy introduced a new, heavily armored type of warship known as a(n) ________________________________.
12. There was so much fighting in Kansas over the slavery issue that Kansas recieved this nickname: ______________________________.
13. The first shot fired of the civil war was fired on ___________________________ at Fort Sumter.
14. Which side won the Battle of Manassas/Bull Run?
15. Who was the Confederate commander athe Battle of Fort Sumter?
16. Who was the Union commander athe Battle of Fort Sumter?
17. What was the name of the Commander of all of the Confederate Military?
18.What was the name of the Commander of all of the American
Military?
19. The Emancipation proclamation freed the slaves in what areas?
20. The 54th Massachussets Regiment was an all black unit commanded by _____________________________.
21. The ________________________________________… the first sucessful submarine.
22.Sherman marched through the South and used “total war” tatics. What does that mean?
23. On April 9, 1865, the Confederate General Robert E Lee surrendered at __________________________________.
24. President Lincoln said that any act of violence in support of secession would be treated as ______________________.
25. One of the south carolina institutions that was noted for training military leaders was _______________________________.
26. The Emancipation Proclamation. declared that all slaves ________________________________________…
27. Ther were __________________ Union states during the Civil War.
28. __________________, a slave, beacame a national hero for commanding “planter” a confederate armament from Charleston harbor on May 15, 1862.
29. The slave states that did not secede, along with the western counties of Virginia were known as ____________________.
30. The use of Naval forces to stop shipping is a(n) ________________.
31. Another word for draft , a system to meet troop quotas, is __________.
32. President ___________________ believed that no state could leave the Union of its own choice.
33. Fort _____________________ off the coast of South Carolina was bombarded by Confederate forces.
34. The Union plan to take the Mississippi River and squeeze the Confederacy to death was known as the _________________ plan.
35. The Confederate capitol during most of the war was ____________________.
36. _________________________ were fast ships that were supposed to be able to outrun other naval ships.
37. ______________________________were armored vessels that the confederate navy used during the war.
38. The confederacy’s political policy based on the belief that French and British textile mills needed the souths cotton was known as ____________________________________.
39. General ______________________ led troops through Georgia and South Carolina, destroying property as they advanced.
40. The trading of one item for another is known as ______________.
41. A ________________________is one who fled the war.
42. The president of the Confederacy was _____________________.
43. The Confederate General who surrendered at Appomattox Court Hose was __________________________________.
44. On Feburary 17-20, 1865, Union troops occupied the South Carolina capitol of _________________________.
45. The battle of __________________________ was the turning point of the war in the east.
46. A complete end to slavery: ____________________________
47. ________________________, a former slave, became one of the most important african american leaders of the 1800’s.
48. a powerful antislavery novel:________________________
49. The principle that would allow voters in a particular territory to decide whether they wanted to ban or permit slavery is _____________________________________.

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