Vocabulary
The rule by an army instead of elected officials
What is martial law?
A person who served in the armed forces.
What is a veteran?
The President of the United States during the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The Civil War began when this Union Fort was fired upon.
What was Fort Sumter?
This document freed the African Americans in the Confederate states.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The drafting of people for military service
What is conscription?
The destruction of food, equipment and anything else of use to soldiers and civilians
What is total war?
He was the commanding general of the armies of the Confederacy.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The first major battle of the Civil War
What was Bull Run?
The name given to the Southern Ship Virginia and the Northern ship Monitor
What were the Ironclads
The murder of a political figure, like a president
What is to assassinate?
A person killed, injured or captured in a war
What is a casualty?
After the Battle of Bull Run. Lincoln picked him to be the commander of the Union army in the East.
Who was General George B. McCellan?
This three day battle where more people were killed than in any other battle was the turning point of the War.
What was Gettysburg?
A former slave and a conductor on the underground railroad, she was also a spy for the North during the Civil War.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The unjust treatment of a person based upon false ideas about a particular group
What is discrimination?
A person who is not a soldier
What is a civilian?
This general forced Lee into surrender.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
The battle on the Mississippi that cut the Confederacy in two.
What was Vicksburg?
She was a volunteer nurse who began the Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
A slave state located between the North and the South that remained in the Union.
What was a border state?
The name of the government of the South
What was the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy?
This general led a march through Georgia and destroyed the city of Atlanta.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
The bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War.
What was Antietam?
This regiment of African American soldiers are remembered for their bravery in the attack on Fort Wagner.
Who were the 54th Massachusetts Volunteers?