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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Chapter 16

  1. The blockade was an offensive move used by the union.
  2. The confederate army had many blockade runners, along with the first ironclad warship
  3. There were four border states that didn’t know whether or not to side with the Union or the confederates.
  4. Two of Lincolns moves that helped the Union win was to draft soldiers and also on those within union borders but were against the Union, jail them without enforcing habeas corpus
  5. 1861- 1865
  6. They were fighting a defensive war, had better leaders at least at first, and they had more will to fight
  7. The United States president was Abraham Lincoln and the Confederates was Jefferson Davis
  8. She gathered medical supplies and supplied them to the Union along with medical help at the front line
  9. To prevent them from getting supplies
  10. It was the Unions first big win that gave them confidence for future battles
  11. That any enslaved person in a state of rebellion was now free
  12. On the North side they fought both in the Navy and in the Army and for the South they worked the land so the white men could fight and this supplied the South
  13. It destroyed it, since most the war was fought in the South, a lot of stuff was destroyed and the south laid in ruins. Farmland was destroyed, and railroad were torn up. There was an inflamtion of 9000 percent.
  14. Lee and his men could go home even with their horse so long as they left their arms
  15. They disagreed with it so they formed West Virginia and seceded from Virginia and joined the Union
  16. To the North, it divided the Confederate and prevented them from shipping or receive supplies. The South used to the transport supplies
  17. It was really a fight for their freedom so they had passion for the war and there were so many of them that if you used them you had more people and a better chance at winning
  18. We was a very strategic man and planned attacks well, he was also good to his men and they respected him and he got things done


Event

Year

Significance

Attack on Fort Sumter

1861

Confederates first attack, start of the civil war

Monitor V. Merrimack

1862

It marked a new age in naval warfare (first battle between two metal- covered ships

Emancipation Proclamation issued

1863

Showed that we were also fighting for slave freedom

Lincoln is reelected

1864

It meant the Union would keep pushing to get the Confederates to rejoin the union and not just make peace with the south

Appomattox Court House

1865

Where Lee surrendered at, ending the War


  1. Cemetery Ridge
  2. Ewell
  3. Ewell, Lee, Hill, Longstreet, and Pickett

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