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First shots of the Civil War were fired here.

• Fort Sumter

• Bull Run

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

match the description to the leader

• George B. McClellan

• Union leader in the west

• Winfield Scott

• took risks, made unpredictable moves

• Robert E. Lee

• had a 2 part plan to win the war

• Ulysses S. Grant

• slow and careful

Match the battle to the description

• Antietam

• allowed the Union to gain control of the Mississippi River

• Shiloh and Vicksburg

• bloodiest single day

• Fort Sumter

• showed the North the war would not be short and easy

• Bull Run

• first shots were fired here

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) South

,

(b) North

,

(c) both

• Jefferson Davis was president

• Robert E. Lee

• Union

• George B. McClellan

• suffered very high casualties (deaths)

• Abraham Lincoln was president

• knew the land better

• Confederacy

• greater population

• better railroads

• better leaders

• relied on volunteers

border states were slave states that did not join the Confederacy

• TRUE

• FALSE