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Front 1

1) Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland.

2) These states are having a tough time deciding because slavery was legal in each of those states but didn't have many slaves.

3) Missouri was important because it controlled parts of the Mississippi River, Kentucky controlled parts of the Ohio river, Delaware was close to Philadelphia, and Maryland was close by to Richmond and DC.

Back 1

Border States

Front 2

1) The purpose of this strategy was to prevent supplies from getting to Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. Plus to cut off trade to European Countries.

2) The North tried to blockade the South from other countries.

Back 2

Blockade

Front 3

1) The plan is called this because it's like a snake squeezing their prey to death as they would do to the South.

2) First, the Union would blockade the Confederacy. Second, they would gain control of the whole Mississippi river. Third, they would capture Richmond.

Back 3

Anaconda Plan

Front 4

1) This man got his nickname because he was heroically holding out like a stone wall.

2) This man was in the Confederacy.

3) His nicknamed played a role in the beginning of the war because they won many battles by breaking up the Northern troops and making them surrender and retreat.

Back 4

Thomas Jackson

Front 5

1) The Union's leader for this battle was Irvin McDowell. The Confederacy's leader was P. G. T. Beauregard and Stonewall Jackson.

2) This battle was July 21, 1861.

3) This battle took place at a small rive named Bull Run.

4) The Confederacy won this battle.

5) The Northerns were shocked about this outcome because they realized it could be a long, difficult, and costly struggle.

Back 5

First Battle of Bull Run

Front 6

1) A small river that flows into a large river.

2) The Mississippi has a lot of tributaries in it.

Back 6

Tributaries

Front 7

1) Armored navel vessel.

2) The Merrimack is for the Union, and the Virginia is for the Confederacy.

3) The outcome of the first battle between these two was that neither could sink each other.

Back 7

Ironclad

Front 8

1) The leaders for this battle for the Confederacy were Albert Sidney Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard. The leaders for the Union were.

2) The battle took place on April 6, 1862.

3) The battle took place at a church named Shiloh.

4) The Union won the battle but barely.

5) There were 23,000 casualties.

6) This battle was important because the North gained control of Corinth, which made Memphis surrender to the North. Capturing these two towns made it a start to controlling the Mississippi River.

Back 8

Battle of Shiloh