16.1

Front 1

1) Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland

2) They were having a tough decision because slavery was legal in the states but nobody actually owned too many slaves.

3) If they went to the South, it would give them more people to fight in the war, but if they went to the North, it would give them access to major rivers and supplies.

Back 1

Border States

Front 2

1) It would prevent the Confederacy from attaining supplies and exporting cotton to other contries.

2) The north set up a blockade to better their situation in the war.

Back 2

Blockade

Front 3

1) Because they are splitting the Confederacy in two and cutting southern supplies.

2) Setting up a blockade, gain control of Mississippi River, and capture Richmond Virginia.

Back 3

Anaconda Plan

Front 4

1) He was standing on top of a hill and people thought he looked like a "stonewall"

2) He was on the Confederate side.

3) People might have been scared because stonewall sounds like a tough and fearless name.

Back 4

Thomas Jackson

Front 5

1) The Union was General Irvin McDowell and Confederate was General P.G.T Beauregard.

2) July 21st, 1861

3) The Confederate Army

4) They realised that this war would be more costly and time-consuming than they originally thought.

Back 5

First Battle of Bull Run

Front 6

1) A river or stream that flows into a larger lake.

2) The Illinois River is a tributary to the Mississippi River.

Back 6

Tributaries

Front 7

1) A Warship that was made of iron.

2) South-Virginia and North- Monitor

3) Neither could damage each-other so nobody won.

Back 7

Ironclad

Front 8

1) General Grant and Albert Sidney Johnston

2) April 6

3) Mississippi

4) The Union

5) There were over 23,000 casualties.

6) It was important because they gained control of Corinth.

Back 8

Battle of Shiloh