1. Civil War Erupts Cornell Notes
Topics Red
Notes are White

2. Fort Sumter
Fort in South Carolina where the Civil War Began

3. Secede to withdraw from or split away from
The South seceded from the Union when Lincoln was elected president

4. Confederacy
What the states that had seceded called themselves

5. Jefferson Davis
Elected president of the Confederacy

6. Robert E. Lee
Main commander of the Confederate army

7. Border States
States between the North and the South - Missouri, Kentucky, West Virginia and Maryland

8. Washington D.C.
Capital of the Union

9. Richmond, Virginia
Capital of the Confederacy

10. Abraham Lincoln
President of the Union

11. King Cotton
Cotton was the most important agricultural product in the South.
The South made a great deal of money on exporting cotton

12. Anaconda Plan
Union plan to cut the South in half making it difficult to supply the troops
Named after a big snake

14. 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