Civil War
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- Stonewall Jackson
- Leader of the reinforcements that helped the South win the 1st Battle of Bull Run.
- Gettysburg
- Third event. This Union victory, despire heavy losses on both sides, strengthened the Republicans and forced Lee's forces onto the defensive. Union and Confederate armies faced each other in the hills near town, where the famous Pickett's Charge occured. July 2-3 , 1863: The turning point of the war for the North.
- Appottomax Courthouse
- Seventh event. The siege of Petersburg had gone poorly for Lee, and his troops attempted to flee when the last rail line was cut. Lee surrendered to Grand on April 9, 1865, under generous terms of surrender. Cavarly got ahead of Lee's forces and blocked the road at Appotmattox Courthouse.
- Atlanta
- Sixth event. While Grant was leading the fight in Virginia, General Sherman captured this city and proceeded to march his troops to the sea, burning and destroying a huge swathe of Georgia.
- Define Secede
- leave; back out
- Vicksburg
- First event. City that was sieged as part of the Union's strategy to take control of the mississippi, and fell to Union control on July 4, 1863.
- Union
- Won civil war. Grant was the leader. Fred Douglass urged lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in this army.
- Fredericksburg & Chancellorsville
- In May of 1863, Union commander Joseph Hooker attemted to flack Lee's troops near these towns, but retreated after several defeats.
- Gettysburg Address
- Eigth event. Given by president Lincoln in November while dedicating a portion of the battlefield as a cemetary.
- Ulysses S. Grant
- Went on to serve two terms as president after the war. Person to whom Lee surrendered at Appomatox. And Union military commander who won victories over the South when others had failed.
- 1860 election
- Abraham Lincoln won!
- Antietnam
- Issued after battle.
- Result of Lincoln's presidency
- end of slavery & nations came together
- Lincoln's goal of war
- make all men equal and keep nation together.
- Emacipation Proclamation
- Freed slaves in seceeded states.
- Jefferson Davis
- President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
- Issue that triggered Civil War
- secession & slavery
- Frederick Douglass
- Former slave who became a prominent black abolitionist.Urged Lincoln to recruit former slaves to fight in the Union army.
- Chattanooga
- Fourth event. The Union victory here after Grant was placed in commant and secured control of a vital railroad into Atlanta.
- Abraham Lincoln
- President of the united states during the civil war. Also insisted that the Union be held together by force if necessary.
- Fort Sumter
- Location where first shot of war was fired.
- Robert E. Lee
- Opposed secession but did not believe the union should be held together by force. Turned down an offer to lead the Union army because he did not want to fight against fellow virginians. Urged Southereners to accept defeat and unite as americans after appomatox.
- Siege of Petersburg
- Fifth event. Union forces besieged this town in Virginia, intending to capture it and cut off the only trail to Richmond.