Chapter 15 Civil War Review

Women as well as people too young or too old for military service

Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley after wining the 

What event was the spark that began the civil war?

Frederick Douglass believed that military service would help African Americans

One of the advantages that favored the Union in the war was

In his inaugural address, Lincoln promised to

Which slave state remained in the Union?

The cotton diplomacy was the Confederate attempt 

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the battlefield cemetery 

Robert E. Lee declined President Lincoln's request to serve as the leader of the Union army 

Confederacy re-engineered a captured Union ship into a new type of warship called

Some northerners opposed emancipation, or the freeing of slaves because

General Sherman's total war waged against the Confederates 

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and 

The first state to secede from the Union was

Northern Democrats, who were against the war, were called _______ by their enemies. 

Lincoln silenced his opponents during the was by suspending habeas corpus, which was 

The nomination and eventual victory of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency 

Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation order

The 13th Amendment, passed in 1865 made

Union set up a naval blockade of southern Confederate ports to