When did the Cival War end?

May 1865.

What were the states' rights?

A principle which allowed the confederate states to make up with their own laws

Where and what was the first battle of the Civil War?

First Battle of Bull Run took place in northern Virginia when 30,000 inexperienced troops from the Union made their General McDowell attack the Confederacy’s General Beauregard

Who was the president of the Confederate States?

He was Jefferson Davis who ordered Lee to launch an offensive into Maryland

How many soldiers died in the civil war?

600,000 soldiers which is a very big tradgedy to the US

When did the first battle, First Battle of Bull Run, start?

July 1861

What is the offense?

During the war, southern leaders sometimes changed strategy and went on the attack. By this they would move their armies north wanting the north to know that they cannot win the war.

Where did the Battle of Antietam take place?

This war happened in Sharpsburg, Maryland and was the bloodiest battle in the entire civil war.

Who were the rebels?

In 1861, these people were the confederate army’s 112,000 soldiers

Who won the election in 1864?

Senator Abraham Lincoln due to Sherman being captured in Atlanta

What happened on February 1861?

7 states left the Union to form the Confederate states on this date

What was ratified in 1865?

The thirteenth amendment was approved in 1865

Where was another battle going on at the same time as the Battle of Gettysburg?

Vicksburg, Mississippi at the time of the Battle of Getysburg

Who were the Blockade Runners?

Many Confederate ships sailing to the Southern ports to prevent the South from getting supplies

What was the main goal of the North in the West?

They wanted to get control over the Mississippi River

What happened in April 1862?

The confederate Congress passed a draft which made men who were between the ages of 18 and 35 to serve in the army for 3 years.

What does emancipate mean?

This word means free and Lincoln wanted to free the enslaved African Americans in the South, so he waited for the right time.

Richmond, Virginia

Where did Sally Tompkins, a woman who disapproved of the men who said that women cannot do anything, establish a hospital for soldiers?

Who were the Yankees?

They were the Union’s 187,000 soldiers

Who aided, entertained, clothed, and took care of the troops while they could not go to war?

The women in Washington D.C, but some of them were spies.

What happened on September 17, 1862?

The Union and Confederacy armies fought at the Battle of Antietam on this day

What are casualties?

The 20,000 people in both armies who were wounded or killed in the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862

Where and what was the Merrimack?

It was a Union warship that Northern forces had abandoned when the Confederate forces seized the naval shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia

Who was the head of the army of the East Union?

George B. McClellan was appointed by Lincoln over all the other armies of the general

What were President Lincoln’s reasons for issuing the Emancipating Proclamation?

He wanted to clarify the status of the fugitive slaves, solve the Union's manpower woes, keep Great Britain out of the conflict, and disregard slavery