1860 Circle the winner

Stephen Douglas ,
______________,
John Bell
John Breckinridge
__________________, Abraham Lincoln
________________, ____________,
Northern Democrat
Southern Democrat Republican Constitutional Union
Platform:
Platform: Platform: Platform:
• enforce the Fugitive Slave
• unrestricted • no expansion of slavery • preserve the Union
Act
expansion of slavery • protective tariffs
• allow territories to vote on
• annexation of Cuba • internal improvements
practice of slavery

CRITTENDEN COMPROMISE, December 1860

keep the nation together
• In an attempt to ____________________________________________________, Senator John J. Crittenden proposed a
offered concessions to the South
compromise that ___________________________________________________ including:
Guaranteeing
• ________________________________ the existence of slavery in the South

Missouri Compromise to the western territories

• Extending the ______________________________
failed
• The compromise _______________

South Carolina voted to secede from the Union

• December 20, 1860 - _______________________
President Buchanan’s cabinet resigned and
• Many Southerners in ______________________________________
his administration fell apart.
32 states in the Union.
• When Buchanan became president, there were _______
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• When he left, there were ______. Jefferson Davis, 1861

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas joined South Carolina in voting to secede.
• ______________________________________________________________________
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States of America and elected _____________________
• Together the seceded states created the _____________________________________
Richmond, Virginia
as their president, and established their capital in _______________________________
• When it became clear that President Lincoln was going to use force against the South, the Upper South ( ___________
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas
_______________________________________________________________________________________________) also seceded 1
 • 4 slave states
_______________________________ remained in the Union (Border States):
• MARYLAND - Union army resorted to ______________________
__________________ martial law to keep the state under Federal control
• MISSOURI
__________________ Union troops prevented pro-Southerners from gaining control, ____________________
- ___________________ guerrilla forces
sympathetic to the South caused problems throughout the war
• _________________ neutral North waited for South to violate neutrality before sending in
KENT UCKY - voted to remain ___________,
Union troops and forcing Kentucky to remain in the Union
• DELAWARE
________________
Complete the key and color the map.

What 2 states joined the Union during the Civil War?

West Virginia and Nevada
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Federal forts occupied by

• The immediate problem posed by the secession of the southern states were the ___________________
Confederate States of America
Federal troops now located in the ___________________________________________
South Carolina
• Fort Sumter in ______________________________ was cut off from Federal supplies and reinforcements
act with force during his last days as president,
• Buchanan refused to _________________________________________________________________________________________
Abraham Lincoln
instead opting to leave the problem to _________________________________.
send provisions
• Lincoln announced he would __________________________ to the troops at Ft. Sumter
Ft. Sumter
• 4 am on April 12, 1861, South Carolina fired upon _____________________ Civil War
and the _______________________ began
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 NORTH (United States) SOUTH (Confederate States of America)
AKA - Union, Federals, Yankees & Billy Yanks AKA - Confederacy, Rebels & Johnny Reb
Uniform Color Blue
______________ Gray
____________

Number of
23 (West Virginia & Nevada are not
_______ 11
_______
States
included in this number)
New , untried government
• _______
government States had more power than the
• __________
• a working and established _______________
Government central government which made collecting
• Capital: Washington, D.C.
____________________ taxes and passing laws difficult
Richmond, Virginia
• Capital: ___________________________

22 million
_________________ and the number
Population continued to increase as immigrants 9 million 3.5 million of which were slaves
____________,
flowed in during the war years

• contained 85%
_____ of the nation’s factories limited industry
• __________________________________

Industry
• contained 90% of skilled workers imports for its war
• had to rely on ____________
materials making it vulnerable to
able to produce all of the supplies
• ______________________________________
Northern blockades
and weapons needed for the war
______________________________________
railroad system meant men
• extensive ___________________
inadequate
• ______________________ railroad system
and supplies could be moved quickly
(contained less than 30% of nation’s
merchant marines
• large group of _________________________
Transportation (shipping vessels and the people that railroad mileage)
worked on them)
• few merchant ships or naval vessels
_____________________________________
naval supremacy
• _______________________________________

70% of nation’s wealth

• controlled _______ Northern blockades
• Was hurt by ________________________,
• To fund the war, the North: unwillingness of foreign banks to provide
imports
• levied high tariffs on _____________ large loans, and opposition to direct
taxation by the Confederate government
Finances income tax
• introduced an ____________________ • To fund the war, the South:
• issued paper money called raised excise taxes
greenbacks that were not backed • _____________________________
______________
by gold, but by the government • sold government bonds
• sold government bonds to banks and
issued paper money
• ______________________________
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individuals
• very few experienced officers since most • superior military leadership
joined the Confederate army when their • Southerners were accustomed to life in the
home state seceded outdoors, the use of weapons, and riding
• city dwellers and factory workers were not horses
Military prepared for the life of a soldier and needed • had the advantage of fighting on their own
Forces a lot of training soil
• had to fight an offensive war • drafted men between ages of 18-35 except
• drafted men between the ages of 20-45, but those who owned 20 or more slaves (about
those who did not want to fight could find a 10% of slave owners owned more than 20
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substitute or pay $300 slaves)
 Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
General Robert E. Lee Gen. Stonewall Jackson
Known as a brilliant military
Commander of the Served under Robert E. Lee tactician, was also an early
Confederate Army of and was key in winning many member of the Ku Klux Klan
Northern Virginia battles, died in 1863

Major Gen. George Pickett

General J.E.B. Stuart

Gen. James Longstreet Best known for leading the
futile Pickett’s Charge on the
3rd day of the Battle of
Calvary Commander of the
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Gettysburg
Corps Commander of Army Army of Northern Virginia
of Northern Virginia, joined
the Republican Party after
the war and had a successful
post-war career working in
the U.S. government

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 Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson
General Joseph Johnson General P.G.T. Beauregard

Killed during the Battle of

Highest ranking U.S. officer to Commanded armies in the Shiloh and was the highest
resign and join the Western theater, surrendered ranked officer on either side
Confederacy, fought against to General Sherman at Bennett to be killed in the war
Sherman during his March to Farm in Durham, NC in the
the Sea and later surrendered largest surrender of
at Bennett Farm on April 26, Confederate troops on April
1865 26, 1865
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General Ulysses S. Grant

Led troops to victory in Tennessee George B. McClellan

and Mississippi, and, in 1864,
became Commanding General of
Union Army Organized and led Union army during the 1862
Peninsula Campaign, removed after the Battle
of Antietam
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 Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock Admiral David Farragut
1864, became commander of
Best known for his leadership Led the Union Navy to victory
Western forces, his March to the
during the Battle of Gettysburg in New Orleans
Sea devastated the Confederacy

Gen. Winfield Scott

General George Custer

General Ambrose Burnside
Hero of the Mexican-American
War, Commanding General of the Had a successful career during the
U.S. Army until 1861, came up with Civil War and, in 1867, was
the Anaconda Plan dispatched to lead troops in the Led troops to victory in North
West against the Native Americans Carolina and Tennessee but
suffered a disastrous defeat at
Fredericksburg (and the term
“sideburns” was derived from his
fashionable whiskers)
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General George Meade

After the disastrous defeat at 2nd Bull
General John Pope Run, he was sent West to command Union
Commanded the Army of the
forces in the 1862 Dakota War
Potomac, best known for leading
the Union to victory at Gettysburg 6
 war relief efforts at home
• Women supported the ______________________________________________
farms and businesses
• They ran _________________________________________________ while the men were away
disguised themselves as men and fought as soldiers
• An estimated 400-750 women ________________________________________________________________________________
• Some women served as spies
________
nurses
• Thousands of women served as ________________
Rose O'Neal Greenhow

Pauline Cushman Belle Boyd

Confederate spy

Confederate spy
Acted as a spy for the Union

Established a
network of Union
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spies made up of
former slaves

Clara Barton
Harriet Tubman
Nurse

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 BATT LE OF MANASSAS
• Also known as the __________________________________
• LOCATION: Bull Run Creek at Manassas Junction, VA
were sent running back to D.C.
• Union troops _____________________________________________________ by Stonewall Jackson and Confederate troops
• Confederate victory
____________________________________________________
the idea that it would be a short war
• Ended ___________________________________________________________________________

CAUSALITY V. FATALITY
• Battle statistics often list casualties
not the same as a fatality
• It is important to note that a casualty is ____________________________________
killed during the course of the battle
• A fatality is someone who was ______________________________________________
killed, wounded, missing, or captured
• A casualty is someone who was ______________________________________________
during the battle
___________________________________________________________________________
multiple times
• Throughout the war, soldiers could be listed as a casualty __________________
4600
• At the 1st Battle of Bull Run, there were approximately ____________ total casualties
Union and Confederate soldiers who were killed, wounded, and missing after the battle ended
• This number includes _________________________

Union war strategy was called the

• The ___________________________
Anaconda Plan
• It consisted of 3 parts:
blockade Southern ports to
(1) Use the Navy to _________________________________
cut off essential supplies from reaching the South
(2) Divide the Confederacy in two by taking the
Mississippi River
___________________________________________________
(3) Raise and train an army 500,000 strong to take
Richmond
_____________________ capital of Confederate
(the ____________
States of America)
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• The Union blockade extended over 3500 miles along the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of Mexico
____________
ships (most made in Britain) called blockade runners to break through the blockade
• The Confederacy used __________
• These ships were built for speed undetected at night
_______ and they tried to cross through the blockade __________________________________
80% success rate
• Throughout the war, the blockade runners had about an ________
1100 blockade runners and destroyed about ______
• The Union captured about ________ 355

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 TRENT AFFAIR, 1861
U.S. Navy intercepted the British RMS Trent and removed _______________________________________
• ________________ two Confederate diplomats from the
ship (John Slidell and James Mason) who were on their way to Britain and France to champion the Confederate cause
Union and Britain
• Incident caused tension between the ________________________________
released the diplomats
Union bowed to pressure and ___________________________________
• __________

CSS ALABAMA, 1862 - 1864

• Confederatecommercial raiders like the CSS Alabama attacked Union merchant ships _________
_____________________
around the world in an attempt to draw Union ships away from the ________________
_____________________________ blockade
France
• In 1864, CSS Alabama was sunk off the coast of _________________

COTTON DIPLOMACY
• The Confederacy hoped thatEuropean
___________ countries would intervene on their behalf, but Great
Britain and other European countries found new sources of cotton
_______ and they stayed out of the war

Native Americans and the United States did not end just because there was a war
• The conflict between _________________________
Union and the Confederacy
going on between the __________________________________________
• Some Native American nations chose sides
Cherokee Nation
• _________________________________ sided with the Confederates
territories
• The Union kept a military presence in the Western ___________________ and dispatched troops when conflict arose
U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota
• ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Navajo and Apache
• Kit Carson led troops against the _______________________________________ and the occasional Confederate
New Mexico
troops in what will become _____________________
Sand Creek Massacre - Union troops attacked and destroyed a Cheyenne village
• 1864 - ________________________________

Union plan to invade Virginia

• The Peninsula Campaign was the ___________________________________________________
large scale offensive launched by the North
• It was the first ______________________________
George B. McClellan
• General _______________________________ was cautious in engaging the Confederate troops and, as a result, his
Robert E. Lee
forces were stopped by General ___________________________
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North lost, McClellan retreated back to Maryland and was replaced by John Pope
• __________

Tennessee
Ulysses S. Grant gained control over Fort Henry on the ___________________
• Feb. 1862 - Union forces led by _______________________
Cumberland River
River followed by Fort Donelson on the __________________
Tennessee
Kentucky would remain in the Union and opened up the state of ____________________
• These victories ensured ________________
to Union attacks 9
 • Also known as the BATT LE OF HAMPT ON ROADS
_______________________________________
• LOCATION – near Hampton Roads, Virginia
• Naval 2 iron clad ships
_________ battle between _________________________
• Merrimac - Southern ship
__________________
Northern ship
• Monitor - ____________________
tie
• Ended in a draw ( ______)
• Significance - revolutionized future naval warfare, wooden ships became outdated
______________________________________________________________________________________________

620,000
• Approximately ___________________ soldiers died during the Civil War
• Most soldiers did not die from battle infection and disease
wounds instead they died from _______________________________
___________________,
infection and disease rates were because people did not understand what caused infections and
• The high ____________________________
what led to the spread of disease
washing hands, cleaning wounds, and
sanitary practices that we use today like ____________________________________________________
• The common _____________
sterilizing surgery equipment were not used
______________________________________________________________________________________________
pain killers during surgery but many surgeries
• Chloroform, ether, and whiskey were used as anesthetics (_________________________________)
were performed without anesthesia

BATT LE OF PITT SBURG LANDING

• Also known as the _______________________________________________
Tennessee
• LOCATION - _____________________________
Confederate army under Albert Johnson surprise attacked Grant’s army
• The __________________
Union won the battle at a heavy cost
• The _________
23,000 total casualties
• _____________

Led the Union Navy to victory and captured New Orleans

• David Farragut ________________________________________________________________________________________
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• LOCATION: Bull Run Creek at Manassas Junction, VA

• General Lee took advantage of change in Union generals to strike
quickly
Confederate
• ______________________ victory
withdrew to Washington, D.C.
• Union army __________________________________________________
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 BATT LE OF SHARPSBURG
• Also known as the ______________________________________________
• LOCATION - Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, MD
an offensive move into Union territory
• General Lee led the Southern army into Maryland ( ____________________________________________________________)
Britain to give recognition and support to the Confederacy
• Lee hoped that a victory in the North would convince __________
• General McClellan learned of Lee’s plan and intercepted Lee at Antietam
the bloodiest day of combat during the Civil War
• The resulting battle was _____________________________________________________________________________________
6,000 died, _____________were
• Approximately ____________ 17,000 wounded
South the most
no real victor although it will end up hurting the ___________
• The battle ended with _________________________
• Lee retreated, McClellan failed to follow and was replaced by General Burnside

A TURNING POINT:
Great Britain did not grant them recognition or financial support
• Because the South did not win decisively, __________________

executive order
• The Emancipation Proclamation was an ________________________________
issued by Abraham Lincoln
September 1863
• He announced the proclamation in __________________________ and gave the
Confederate states over 3 months to cease their rebellion and return to the
Union as slaveholding states
• The Confederate states refused and the Emancipation Proclamation went into
January 1, 1863
effect on ________________________
rebelling states
• It proclaimed that slaves in the __________________________________ (NOT the
Border States were free
_______________________)

slavery
• It meant that the Union was now fighting against ___________,
not just a rebellion
• Since Great Britain was strongly against slavery, the proclamation made it even more difficult for
British to offer support to the Confederacy
the _______________________________________________________________________________________
25% of the South’s slave population walked away from slavery and towards the
• About ________
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protection of the Union army

200,000
• About _____________________African Americans served in the segregated Union army and Navy
(about 10% of Union forces)
54th Massachusetts Regiment
• ____________________________________
37,000
• Approximately, ______________ African Americans died fighting in the war 11
 3 million
Approximately ________________ soldiers fought in the Civil War
The average Union soldier was
25.8 years old
• ______________________
white
• ______________________
native-born
• ______________________
Protestant
• _______________________
$13/month
• A white Union private was paid _____________
$7/month (until pay became
• An African American Union private was paid ______________
equal in 1864)

unknown but by the end of the

• The average age of a Confederate soldier is ____________,
war, young boys and old men were drafted to fight

The average Confederate soldier was

white
• __________________
native-born
• __________________
Protestant
• __________________
a farmer
• __________________
Jacks
Hardtack
$11/month
• A Confederate private was paid _________________ but often went months without receiving pay

camp
• A soldier spent most of his time in __________
• When they were not training they passed their time by:
Writing letters
• ______________________
games (checkers, card games, jacks, dominoes)
• Playing __________
Making music
• __________________
• Whittling
• Smoking and drinking
• Union and Confederate soldiers mostly ate the same kind of food
• Hardtack
___________ (hard biscuits made from flour, water, and, if available, salt)
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• Salt pork or beef

_____________________
• Corn meal
_____________________
Coffee
• ______________________
scavenged from the area like local fruits and
• Whatever food could be ________________
vegetables and livestock
starving
• By the end of the war, a financially strapped Confederacy resulted in ____________
soldiers
____________________
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 Upon hearing of
Jackson’s death, lost
• General Burnside attacked Lee in Fredericksburg, VA and _________
General Lee
reportedly stated, “I
reckless attack by the Union
• It was a ________________________________________________________
have lost my right 12,000 casualties compared to the Confederacy’s
• The Union had ____________
arm.”
5,000 casualties
_______

• LOCATION - near Fredericksburg, Virginia

Confederate victory
• ___________________________________________
30,000
• Over ____________________ total casualties
General Stonewall Jackson was wounded by friendly fire and
• Confederate ___________________________________
died 8 days later

gateway to Mississippi River

• LOCATION - Vicksburg, Mississippi (______________________________________________)
Grant’s
• ______________________ army lay siege to the fortified city of Vicksburg
• July 4th -the Confederates surrendered
_________________________________________________________________
30,000 total casualties
• Over ______________
Mississippi River
• Victory meant the Union controlled the _________________________________ and isolatedTexas, Louisiana,
____________________________
Arkansas
___________________________from the rest of the Confederacy

Pennsylvania
• LOCATION - Gettysburg, _______________________________
• Lee took his army north was surprised at Gettysburg, PA
Union
• _____________________ victory and Lee retreated
50,000
• Over ________________ total casualties
Lee would never again go on the offensive
• Significance - ____________________________________________________
Pickett’s Charge
• One of the most well known parts of the battle occurred on the 3rd day – ____________________________________
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15,000
• General George Pickett led _______________ confederate soldiers in a charge against _____________________
the Union center line on Cemetery Ridge
____________________________________________________________________________________________________
• This tactic is not as crazy as it sounds –the Confederate army had successfully used large
______________________________________________________________
scale charges before and broken through Union lines
________________________________________________________________________________________________
held their ground
• However, this time the Union soldiers __________________________________________ and it resulted in a
7,000
disastrous ______________ Confederate casualties
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 400,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were captured by enemy forces and became prisoners of war
• About _______________
routinely negotiated prisoner exchanges
• Both sides ____________________________________________________________
Thousands
• ______________________ died while being held as prisoners
• The worst prison camps:
Andersonville, Georgia
• _____________________________________
Elmira, New York
• _____________________________________

Northwest Georgia
• LOCATION - _______________________
retreat to Chattanooga, T N
• The Confederate army forced the Union army to ________________________________
34,000
• Over __________________ total casualties

• LOCATION - Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, Tennessee

pushed them back into Georgia
Confederates and _____________________________________
• Union forces defeated the ____________________
11,000 casualties
• Over __________

Overland Campaign
• Part of Grant’s _______________________
within 100 miles of Richmond, Virginia
• A 6 week series of battles fought __________________________________________________________________
Virginia
• LOCATION - Spotsylvania, _________________
clear winner
• No _____________________
59,000 total casualties
• Over _____________

Overland Campaign
• Part of the _______________________
• LOCATION - Hanover County, Virginia
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Confederate victory
• _________________________________________
18,000
• ________________ total casualties

It’s 1864, the war that both sides thought would be quick, has lasted over 3 years with no end in sight. People in the North are
growing tired of the war and with the presidential election of 1864, just months away, President Lincoln faces the very real
possibility that he will not be re-elected. What do you think will help convince people to support Lincoln and the war? Why?

Answers will vary

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 rifle or musket
• Most soldiers were issued a _________________________________
with a bayonet
___________________________________________________________
• Officers often carried _________and small arms
swords _________________________
like a revolver

MINIE BALLS
range
bullets improved the _______________
• Created in 1848, these __________
and accuracy
______________________of the guns used during the Civil War
• They easily penetrated the body and shattered bones
increasing the need for amputation
_________________________________________________________

GATLING GUN
1861
• Designed by Dr. Richard Gatling in _______
rapid fire, hand-cranked gun
• This ______________________________________________________
was first used in combat by the Union army during the
Civil War
• Could shoot about 200 rounds of bullets in 1 minute
machine gun
• Predecessor to the _________________________

LONG AND SHORT RANGE ARTILLERY

guns and mortars
• You might call these cannons, but by the time of the Civil War, they are called _______________________
damage to structures and enemy soldiers
projectiles to inflict ___________________________________________________________
• Their purpose was to fire _______________
range of projectile
gun determined the ______________
• The size and shape of the ______
to blast holes into structures
• Some artillery shots were one solid ball to _________________________________________________________________
• Others were mass of solid balls packed together designed to inflict maximum damage to advancing enemy
________________________
soldiers
smaller pieces of metal flew out and hit the
• Shrapnel Shells were also used and when these exploded, _______________________________________________________
surrounding soldiers
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

• The Civil War was the first American war to be documented by

________________________________________________________
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photographs
_____________________________________________________________________________
Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner
• A corps of field photographers including _______________________________________
Union troops throughout the duration of the war
followed the _________
• Due to the elaborate and delicate photography procedure, it was extremely difficult to
to take photographs during the actual battles
__________________________________________________________________________
still images like camp scenes, portraits,
• Most of the images from the Civil War are __________________
preparation for battle, group photographs, and the aftermath of battles 15
Mathew Brady
 Overland Campaign
• Part of the ____________________________
Virginia
• LOCATION - Petersburg, ___________________
critical junction of 5 railroad lines
• Petersburg was the _____________________________________________that supplied the city of Richmond and Lee’s army
• The siege was a series of battles fought around Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia
Petersburg and Richmond
• April 2, 1865, Lee ordered the evacuation of ______________________________________
the cities surrendered
• On April 3, ____________________________________
11,000
• Over ___________________ total casualties

• Military campaign led by Union General William Tecumseh

Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia
Sherman from ________________________________________

We’re “not only fighting • Sherman’s force of 62,000 men destroyed everything the
hostile armies, but a hostile enemy might use
________________________________ (scorched earth policy)
people…” We need to “make
old and young, rich and poor, • First time in U.S. history _______________________________
feel the hard hand of war” that civilian centers became military targets
_____________________________________________________
and end this war.
• Atlanta, GA
September 1864 - Sherman captured ___________________
• burned Atlanta
November 1864 - Sherman ____________________________
• Savannah, GA
December 1864 - Sherman captured ___________________
• From Savannah, Sherman headed north to Columbia,
_____________SC
(capital of SC) and captured the city in February 1865
• After the capture of Columbia, Sherman’s army continued
their path of destruction through _______________________
South Carolina and into North Carolina
______________________________________________________

1864 Circle the winner

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This election could have easily

gone against Lincoln. Sherman’s
_______________________
capture of Atlanta
_______________ helped him
immensely and Lincoln won a very
close popular election.

Abraham Lincoln Republican George McClellan

______________,
________________,
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 Lee and his troops
• After the Siege of Petersburg, ______________________________retreated from Richmond and headed west intending to
Confederate forces in North Carolina
join up with _____________________________________________________
April 9, 1865 Lee’s army battled Union forces and was forced to surrender at _________________
• However, on ____________________,
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
____________________________________________________
TERMS OF SURRENDER:
imprisoned or prosecuted for treason
• Soldiers would not be __________________________________________
keep their pistols and swords
• Officers could ________________________________________________
take home their horses and mules
• Soldiers could __________________________________________________________
• Lee was given food rations to distribute to his starving army
______________________________________________________________________________________________________
fighting continued in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida
• Lee’s surrender signaled the end of the war, but _____________

John Wilkes Booth

• April 14, 1865 - _____________________________________________ assassinated Lincoln at
Ford’s Theater
_____________________________ in Washington, D.C.
William Seward
• A co-conspirator attacked and wounded Secretary of State __________________________
Andrew Johnson
• Upon Lincoln’s death, Vice President _____________________________ became president

April 26, 1865 – the largest surrender of Confederate troops occurred when
• _____________________
John Wilkes Booth
Sherman at the home
Generals Johnston and Beauregard surrendered to General ______________
of James Bennett (called Bennett Place) near Durham,North Carolina
________________________
89,270
• The ______________ surrender terms
Confederate soldiers were given the same _______________________as
the soldiers at Appomattox
• The war was over

treated as fact
• Supremacy of the Federal government over the state became ________________________
Inflation
• ______________________
bankrupt
• Worthless Confederate dollars left Southerners __________________
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Women went to work

• _____________
slavery
• End of ______________________
620,000
• More than __________________ died in the war (includes those who died in battle, from battle wounds, from disease &
infection, and in prison camps)
$15 billion
• ____________________in war costs and property losses (the majority in the South)
lay in ruin from the fields and farms to the cities
• The South ____________________________________________________________________________________________________
industrial power
• Helped transform the Northeast into an ____________________________ 17