Civil War Advantages

The Union wanted to capture __________, which was the capital of the Confederacy

Which side had more than 20,000 miles of railroads, all networked together?

The best officer of the time (Lincoln actually asked him to lead the Union army) was Confederate General ...

Some Union soldiers were fighting to keep the Union together and some went to war to end slavery.

Another advantage of the Union was that it had 189 million ___________ to the South's 47 million.

The President of the Confederacy was once a U.S. Secretary of ...

The north was more industrialized and its railroads were all connected which allowed the Union to deliver more ...

The President of the Confederate States of America was...

The nickname for any soldier in the Confederate army

Many battles, including 1st Manassas, were fought to control...

The Union had more soldiers in their army because the north had a larger ..

The Confederacy was counting on the war to be _____ so the Union would get tired of the fighting.

Lincoln went through a bunch of Commanders, including McClellan twice, before staying with...

Because most of the battles were fought in the south, one of the South's advantages was that they ...

Sometimes Union officers weren't sure where to go because...

The longer the war lasted, the better the chances that the Union would let the rebels have their independence.

The Union wanted to block ships from entering or leaving the South but the South's ______ was huge!

A man was officially eligible to fight if he was ___ to ___ years of age.

Fighting for a cause they believed in, Independence, gave the South great ..

How many states were in the Confederacy?

By winning a battle in the North, the Confederacy believed it would make northerners ...

The longer the war lasted, the superior resources of the Union would bring them victory.

The Union tried to stop the Southern army from getting supplies by controlling the ______________

Of the nearly 9 million people in the South in 1860, how many were enslaved?

Some Union soldiers were only fighting because they had been drafted.