| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Spirt of '61 | A symobl of the Union pride on recruting posters. |
| Fort Sumter | An important federal post that was located near Charleston, South Carolina. |
| Abraham Lincoln | (First and Last Name) The POTUS who decided to resupply troop at Sumter, instead of surrendering. |
| Union | Before aid had arrived, South Carolina demanded __ troops to leave. |
| April 12, 1861 | The date Confeds. attack Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War. |
| 75,000 | The number (with comma) of militia men Lincoln asked for from the state governors. |
| Stephen Douglas | Person who said, "Every man must be for the United States or against it," and suprisingly supported Lincoln's call for troops. |
| border states | Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware, also had slavery, but supported Union. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | The first woman to ever earn a medical lincense, and convince POTUS Lincoln to form the US Sanitary Commission. |
| North | Had most of nation's factories and shipyards. (Not "Union/ Confederacy") |
| North | Had most number of soldiers. (Not "Union/ Confederacy") |
| North | Had a better rail road system, more efficent transportation. (Not "Union/ Confederacy") |
| South | Had a long military history, more skilled officers. (Not "Union/ Confederacy") |
| South | Had an advantage that they only needed to defend thier land. (Not "Union/ Confederacy") |
| North | Had to occupy large amounts of land to win the war. (Not "Union/ Confederacy") |
| Winfield Scott | Union General- developed a two-part simple plan. |
| Scott's Great Snake | Part 1: destroy the South's economy through naval blockade, Part 2: control the Mississippi to divide the Confederacy/ cut off its communications. |
| South's Plan | Normal- Part 1: defend territory, Part2: wear down Union's will to fight. OFFENSIVE- TAKE DOWN WASHINGTON D.C. |
| Jefferson Davis | POTCSA or POTC |
| cotton diplomacy | Davis and other leaders of the South tried to win over foriegn allies, for soliders, through |
| Republican Party | To ease tensions in the ____ ____, President Abraham Lincoln appointed several rival members of his party to his cabinet |
| abolish slavery | Hoping to prevent more states from seceding from the Union, President Lincoln in his inaugural address pledged that he would not ____ _____ in the South. |
| Fort Sumter | After the Confederates attacked ___ ___, President Lincoln declared that a state of rebellion existed in the South. |
| Richmond Virginia | The capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery, Alabama, to the Upper South, in ___, ______. |
| the North and South | The strategic positions of Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland made them of great importance to ____. |
| Union | The U.S. Sanitary Commission was created in 1861 to help ____ troops. |
| Great Britian | The South tried to gain support, particularly from ____ ___ |
| Eastern | Many of the best-known battles of the Civil War took place in the _______________ theater of war. |
| India and Egypt | Britain's other countries that brought them cotton. |
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