The Civil War Begins

The Civil War Begins

Chapter 11 Section 1

Confederate States of America

• Commonly referred to as the Confederate States, or the Confederacy, it was a government set up in 1861 by the slave states of the Southern United States that had declared their independence and seceded from the United States.

The Union

• During the American Civil War, the Union was the term used to refer to the United States of America, specifically to the national government and the 20 free states and five border slave states which supported it.

Jefferson Davis

• Jefferson Finis Davis was a United States soldier and statesman, and was the President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War

Baltimore Riot of 1861

• A conflict that took place on April 19, 1861, in Baltimore, Maryland between Confederate sympathizers and members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington for Federal service. It is regarded by historians as the first bloodshed of the American Civil War.

The Anaconda Plan• The Anaconda Plan was the

initial strategy devised by Union leaders to put down the rebellion by the Confederacy in 1861.

• The strategy was devised to weaken the south without invading it. It was nicknamed the Anaconda Plan because it would strangle the Confederacy the way the anaconda snake constricts its victim.