Miscellaneous
This is the name given to General Sherman's strategy of destroying civilian and economic resources
Who is Total War?
People who didn’t believe in slavery
Who were abolitionists?
The General of the Army of the Potomac who was relieved of his command by President Lincoln because of his ineffective leadership.
Who was General George B. McClellan?
This was the battle that began the Civil War
What was Fort Sumter?
More battles were fought in the North or the South.
What is the South?
This was the name given to the Peace Democrats who did not believe the war was necessary and generally sympathized with the South.
Who were the Copperheads?
This was the name given in the North to escaped slaves.
What was contrabands?
The major Union General at the end of the Civil War.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This battle was considered the “turning point” of the war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This geographic landmark was site of the Siege of Vicksburg
What is the Mississippi River?
This means forced military service
What is the draft?
This was the major characteristic about the northern economy that made slavery less necessary in the North.
What was the north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations?
This Union general who lived in Bristol, Rhode Island, was replaced by General Joseph Hooker after suffering significant losses at the Battle of Fredericksburg. He became famous for a certain physical feature.
Who was General Ambrose Burnside?
This battle was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This city was the largest Confederate city and gateway to the Mississippi and fell to Admiral David Farragut in April 1862.
What was New Orleans?
This is the protection against unlawful imprisonment which was suspended by Lincoln during the Civil War
What is habeas corpus?
This was the name of a famous African American fighting unit for the North.
What was the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
The title of the statement Lincoln made that freed slaves in rebelling states.
What was The Emancipation Proclamation?
This was the name of the union strategy to surround the South and strangle it.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
This was the site of the naval battle between the Union Monitor and the Confederate Virginia
What was Hampton Roads, Virginia?
Besides slavery, conflicting economic interests, and protection of the Union, this major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy and led to Civil War.
What is the issue of states' rights?
This was a major setback for the anti-slavery movement when it decided that no African Americans had rights under the Constitution because they were not citizens of the United States.
What was the 1857 Dred Scott Supreme Court decision?
This military leader was killed by friendly fire.
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered.
What was Appomattox Courthouse?
General Sherman's campaign to destroy the South began in this state.
What is Tennessee?