Vocabulary
Weapons, ammunition, and equipment used in war.
What is munition?
The capital of the Union during the Civil War.
What is Washington, D.C.?
He served as the Union president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He was the most famous Confederate general.
Who is Robert E. Lee.
This was the "party of Lincoln".
What is Republican?
The act of removing oneself from an organization or alliance.
What is secede?
The capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond?
He was chosen as president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Lincoln trusted this general most of all.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This crop was "king" in the Confederacy.
What is cotton?
To discuss or bargain between two or more parties to reach an agreement.
What is negotiate?
This battle had a profound influence on the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This state was first to secede.
What is South Carolina?
This general stood "like a stone wall" during the battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas Jackson?
Lincoln's notice that promised to free all slaves in states that seceded.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A military operation in which a city or fort is completely surrounded.
What is a siege?
The bloodiest single-day battle was fought here.
Where is Antietam?
This is the location of the first "real" battle of the Civil War.
Where is Bull Run?
This general captured and burned Atlanta.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This period after the war when America was being rebuilt.
What is Reconstruction?
A temporary fortification where guns are mounted.
What are siegeworks?
Robert E. Lee surrendered here.
Where is Appomattox Courthouse?
The first shot of the war was fired here.
Where is Fort Sumter?
This Union general attempted to capture Richmond in the Peninsular Campaign.
Who is George McClellan?