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Fort Sumter

First Battle of the Civil War

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

Alexander Stephens

Vice President of the Confederate States of America

Abraham Lincoln

President of the US during the Civil War

Andrew Johnson

Vice President of the US during the Civil War

Union Strategy

Blockade Southern ports, take the Mississippi River, and capture Richmond, VA (Confederate Capital)

Washington DC

Union capital

Richmond, Virginia

Confederate Capital

Advantages of the North

More people, troops, factories, railroads, and wealth

Advantages of the South

Better military leaders, people supported the war, fighting on familiar land

Fort Pulaski

Fort that defended the city of Savannah. This fort was taken by the Union during the war.

Battle of Antietam

The bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The Union stopped the Confederates from taking Washington DC.

Border States

Four slave owning states (Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky) that were still loyal to the Union.

List of the four border states

Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Kentucky

Emancipation Proclamation

a decree from Abraham Lincoln that freed all slaves in Confederate states

Battle of Chickamauga

bloodiest battle fought in Georgia.

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.

Appomattox Courthouse

The place in Virginia where the Confederates surrendered to the Union in April of 1865

Most of the battles in Georgia were fought...

During Sherman's March to the Sea

Andersonville

A Confederate prison located in Georgia to house Union prisoners. It was extremely overcrowded with very bad living conditions

Savannah

City not destroyed by Sherman. He symbolically gave the city to Pres. Lincoln as a Christmas present.

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