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22 Cards in this Set
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Fort Sumter |
First Battle of the Civil War |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederate States of America |
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Alexander Stephens |
Vice President of the Confederate States of America |
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Abraham Lincoln |
President of the US during the Civil War |
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Andrew Johnson |
Vice President of the US during the Civil War |
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Union Strategy |
Blockade Southern ports, take the Mississippi River, and capture Richmond, VA (Confederate Capital) |
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Washington DC |
Union capital |
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Richmond, Virginia |
Confederate Capital |
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Advantages of the North |
More people, troops, factories, railroads, and wealth |
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Advantages of the South |
Better military leaders, people supported the war, fighting on familiar land |
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Fort Pulaski |
Fort that defended the city of Savannah. This fort was taken by the Union during the war. |
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Battle of Antietam |
The bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The Union stopped the Confederates from taking Washington DC. |
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Border States |
Four slave owning states (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky) that were still loyal to the Union. |
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List of the four border states |
Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
a decree from Abraham Lincoln that freed all slaves in Confederate states |
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Battle of Chickamauga |
bloodiest battle fought in Georgia. |
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Sherman's March to the Sea |
Gen. Sherman's army destroyed Atlanta in 1864. Then made its way to Savannah taking what it needed and destroying everything else. |
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Appomattox Courthouse |
The place in Virginia where the Confederates surrendered to the Union in April of 1865 |
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Most of the battles in Georgia were fought... |
During Sherman's March to the Sea |
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Andersonville |
A Confederate prison located in Georgia to house Union prisoners. It was extremely overcrowded with very bad living conditions |
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Savannah |
City not destroyed by Sherman. He symbolically gave the city to Pres. Lincoln as a Christmas present. |
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25,000 bales of cotton |
Sherman discovered this in warehouses in Savannah. He loaded it on to Union ships and took it up North to be sold |