Documents & Events

Question 1

Emancipation Proclamation (January 01, 1863)

Answer 1

• Issued by: Lincoln
• What it did: Freed slaves in Confederate states (not border states); shifted the war’s focus to slavery

Question 2

Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)

Answer 2

• Who: Lincoln
• What: Speech to honor fallen soldiers; redefined the purpose of the war

Question 3

Sherman’s March to the Sea (Late 1864)

Answer 3

• What: Union General Sherman used total war tactics, destroyed Southern infrastructure

Question 4

Appomattox Court House (April 09, 1865)

Answer 4

• What: Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant; war ended

Question 5

Border States

Answer 5

• Examples: Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware
• Why important: Stayed in Union but had slavery; crucial to Union strategy

Question 6

“The Anaconda Plan”

Answer 6

Union strategy which called for blocking the coast and cutting off the South from all aid. Then squeezing the southern economy until they surrendered

Question 7

Effects of the Civil War

Answer 7

• Over 600,000 Americans died
• Slavery abolished in the U.S.(13th Amendment)
• The South was devastated—cities destroyed, economy ruined
• The U.S. became a stronger federal nation
• Began Reconstruction (era of rebuilding and integrating Southern states)