Civil War Erupts Vocabulary
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Fort Sumter
• Fort in South Carolina where the Civil War Began
Secede
• to withdraw from or split away from
• The South seceded from the Union when Lincoln was elected president
Confederacy
• What the states that had seceded called themselves
Jefferson Davis
• Elected president of the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
• Main commander of the Confederate army
Border States• States between the North and
the South - Missouri, Kentucky, and Maryland
Washington D.C.
• Capital of the Union
Richmond, Virginia• Capital of the Confederacy
Abraham Lincoln
• President of the Union
King Cotton
• Cotton was the most important agricultural product in the South.
• The South made a great deal of money on exporting cotton
Anaconda Plan
• Union plan to cut the South in half making it difficult to supply the troops
• Named after a big snake
blockade• an effort to cut off food,
supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force
• The Union tried to blockade the Confederacy