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The North used this strategy by General Winfield Scott which involved forming a Union blockade around the South's coasts
What was the Anaconda Plan?
A veteran of the Mexican-American War, this general lead the Confederate army against President Lincoln in order to protect his native Virginia homeland during the Civil War
Who was Robert E. Lee?
In 1863, the Union army under the command of General Meade defeated the Confederate army in Pennsylvania by having the higher ground
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
Invented by Samuel Morse in 1844, this was used by Abraham Lincoln to receive news about the war and to communicate with commanders in the field
What was the telegraph?
On April 14, 1865, this actor assassinated President Lincoln at Ford's Theater using a .44-caliber pistol
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
This document, which took effect in 1863, freed all slaves in the South
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Being one of Robert E. Lee's most trusted officers, he led fearlessly with his cavalry troops and won in the Battle of Bull Run
Who was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
In April 1861, Confederate troops invaded and captured Charleston Harbor in South Carolina, starting the Civil War
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
The design of this ammunition followed by the invention of rifling allows greater distance and precision at the target; it was responsible for up to 90 percent of deaths and injuries in the Civil War
What is the minié ball/bullet?
This abolitionist who once was a former slave addressed the speech named "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" in 1852; two of his sons later joined the 54th Massachusetts Regiment during the Civil War
Who was Frederick Douglass?
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln addressed this speech in Pennsylvania to dedicate the soldiers who fought in the civil war
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The president of the Confederate States of America during the civil war. He was later captured and imprisoned by the Union after the war
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This battle was won by the Confederates after they unleashed a counter-attack against General McDowell's Union army at Manassas, Virginia
What was the First Battle of Bull Run?
This invention allowed the transportation of troops and supplies more efficiently, giving the North a greater advantage due to their larger infrastructure
What is the railroad?
Known as the "Angel of the Battlefield," this nurse aided soldiers in many battles, including Antietam, and founded the American Red Cross
Who was Clara Barton?
This general led the Savanna Campaign in 1864 and marched along the Atlanta Coast, using "total war" tactics to destroy buildings and supplies in the South
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
This attack by General George Pickett on the Union Army at Gettysburg utterly failed and was named this
What was Pickett's Charge?
The 54th Massachusetts Regiment led by General Shaw won against the Confederates at Charleston Harbor in July of 1863
What was the Battle of Fort Wagner?
These vehicles took over wooden ships and were used in the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack
What is the ironclad?
She led the Union's Women Nurse during the Civil War and sent reforms of treatment of the mentally ill in many prisons and asylums
Who was Dorothea Lynde Dix?
He was a major general nicknamed "Fighting Joe" from the Batte of Williamsburg who also led the Union Army in the Battle of Antietam and defeated Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Chancellorsville
Who was Joseph Hooker?
He was a cavalry officer during the civil war who fought in the Battle of Fort Donelson and would later become the leader of the Ku Klux Klan
Who was Nathan Bedford Forrest?
In April 1862, General Sherman and General Grant launched a counterattack against the Confederate army at Tennesse, resulting in over the Union's victory and over 20,000 casualties
What was the Battle of Shiloh?
This was used on soldiers on the battlefield to fight off their diseases, especially gangrene
What is bromine?
Daily Double
"The little woman who wrote the book that started this great war" as Abraham Lincoln said after she published the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?