Civil War

What vital location was the first major objective in Sherman's campaign in 1864?

What is a flanking maneuver?

Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

States that rebelled against the United States and declared themselves seceded and independent from the Union called?

The North relied on factories and businesses and did not need slaves in order to maintain its economy.

Lawmakers admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

What do you call the historical period between the American Revolution and American Civil War?

Slavery was never constitutionally abolished

The 1863 Confederate invasion of the North was their high tide mark and most terrible defeat.

What was the second vital location in Georgia Sherman knew that he must capture to bring the Civil War to a quick end?

In 1863, what battle in Tennessee gave the Union Army the foothold they needed to invade the South?

What southern institution did Alexander Stephens call the "cornerstone" of the Southern way of life?

In 1863, what decisive victory on the Mississippi sent Generals Ulysses S. Grant on his road to greatness.

Abraham Lincoln received the captured city of Savannah as a Christmas present from General Sherman.

Why did President Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address?

Andersonville was a model prison camp for its humane, equal and sanitary living conditions.

This legal action admitted California as a free state and made no decision on the new territories of New Mexico and Utah

The Southern Planter was at the bottom of the social hierarchy before the outbreak of the American Civil War.

What battle saw the first shots of the Civil War? There were no casualties as a direct result of this conflict.

What was not an issue leading to the American Civil War?

Lincoln thought that it was his sovereign and constitutional duty to preserve the Union through the Southern rebellion.

While the Union Army wintered in Chattanooga, what rising Union General was placed in command of the Union Army there?

As Vice President, the South Carolinian was the leader of the nullification movement around the 1828 tariff.

First full battle fought in Northwest Georgia in the fall of 1863, resulting in a Union defeat and big losses for both

He was the President of the Confederate States of America.

The Confederacy won the war against the Union.

Georgia would accept the Compromise of 1850 as long as the North compiled.

This legal action required runaway slaves to be returned to the South.

The South relied heavily on cash crops, like cotton, and depended heavily on slave labor to work the large plantations.

What strategy did Sherman and Grant unite around in the Spring of 1864?

Railroads were of little importance in the American Civil War.

He was the 16th President of the United States of America. He wrote the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Dred Scott v. Sandford case resulted in a decision that put what controversy on display?

Why was Atlanta so vital to the South that is was compared to the heart of the Confederacy?