1) A) One of the North’s strategies was to take the offensive and blockade the southern ports. B) The Confederate’s Ironclad warships were called blockade runners. C) The war was broke up into three parts: the union, or north; the south, or confederates; and the boarder states, who weren’t completely sure which side to support. D) Lincoln suspended the right of Habeas Corpus which was sort of like the draft where it was a law that said men between 18 and 35 had to serve in the army for three years.
2) 2) 1861-1865
3) 3) They fought on familiar territory; Strong support its white population gave to the war; and defending their land, homes, and way of life.
4) 4) Abraham Lincoln was president of the United States, and Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy.
5) 5) She helped out with the medical part of the war. She supplied the doctors with bandages and medical supplies; she kept the doctors going and gave aid to many. She also started the American Red Cross and served as its president for 20 years.
6) 6) So it would stop their selling of cotton to Britain and that way they didn’t get money which would help support the war. Also because it stopped the import of infantry and food to the south from Britain.
7) 7) The Union won.
8) 8) It was to free all enslaved African Americans in the South.
9) 9) In the south African Americans labored on plantations and in vital iron, salt, and lead mines as well as nurses in military hospitals and cooks in the army. In the north a lot of African Americans joined the Navy because they weren’t allowed to join the army. However, in 1862 congress passed a law that allowed African Americans to join the Union army, and they did.
10) 10) It ended slavery in the south, and the slaves were the ones who picked cotton, which was their main economy.
11) 11) That the Confederate soldiers had to lay down their arms, and were free to go home on their horses. Grant also ordered three days worth of food to be sent to Lee and his troops.
12) 12) By organizing 48 Virginia counties which then got them considered as a separate state called West Virginia.
13) 13) It was vital to the South because it was one of its main shipping lines. The north thought they needed to take it over so that way the south couldn’t use it anymore to ship goods and also to split the Confederacy.
14) 14) They saw them as more people to fight in the war. Also because they didn’t really have a life to the Americans, so it wasn’t a huge loss if they died, especially in the north.
15) 15) I think he was affective because he knew when and where to attack; ha had good timing. He also took risks which worked for him a lot of the times, and he had a group of men who were extremely motivated to fight.
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| Event | Year | Significance |
| Attack on Fort Sumter | April 12, 1861 | The Union surrendered Fort Sumter to the Confederates. No one died. |
| Monitor v. Merrimack | March 9, 1862 | It was a naval war between two ironclad ships. They weren’t able to sink one, but the Merrimack was kept in the harbor, so the North sort of won. |
| Emancipation Proclamation issued | January 1, 1863 | It was a document that would free all enslaved African Americans from the south. |
| Lincoln is reelected | (October) 1864 | He was the right guy to be in office when the war ended. |
| Appomattox Court House | April 9, 1865 | Lee and his troops surrender to Grant, officially ending the war. |
17) 17) Cemetery Ridge
18) 18) Ewell
19) 19) Ewell, Lee, Hill, Longstreet, and Pickett.
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