Miscellaneous
Battles
Terms
Vocabulary
Notable Names
100

This was a major cause of class friction in the South as well as the North during the Civil War. Hint: conscription

What is inequity in the draft systems. The rich could buy their way out of service.

100

This battle was considered the bloodiest day of the Civil War leaving 6,000 dead and 17,000 wounded.

What is the battle of Antietam?

100

The Union used its navy to patrol the Southern coastline to restrict Confederate access to supplies, known as this.

What is the Union Blockade?

100

This is another name for a small farmer who did not have enslaved people working it.

What is yeoman?

100

This man, after being fired as commanding General of the Union army ran as a democrat in the 1864 election against Lincoln.

Who is George B. McClellan.

200

These are a debt instrument that supply funding for war and help control inflation.

What are war bonds?
200

This battle was in Pennsylvania on July1-3, 1863. It was fought between General Meade and General Robert E. Lee.  The battle cost Lee 1/3 of his men.

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200

This announcement was issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863 declaring all slaves in confederate controlled territory free.

What is the Emancipation Proclaimation?

200

This means to publicly declare to be wrong or evil

What is denounce?
200

This man was the president of the Confederacy.

Who is Jefferson Davis?

300

The Confederate army included three regiment of indigenous people from the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee. These tribes were collectively known as what?

What are the 5 Civilized Tribes?

300

This battle in Tenessee between Albert Sidney Johnston and Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 6-7 1862. Grant's Union army prevailed. The Confederacy's bid to control the war in the west was lost.

What is the battle of Shiloh?

300

Military campaign from September through December 1864 in which Union forces moved from Atlanta, Georgia to the coast of Savannah. Carving a path of destruction as it progressed, the aim was to destroy white southerners's will to continue the war.

What is Sherman's March to the Sea?

300

Marking the beginning of an activity or period in office

What is inaugural?

300

This man called Abraham Lincoln a dunce.

Who is  George B. McClellan?

400

Robert Gould Shaw was a colonel for the Union who lead this company. Notable because it was the first black battalion of the Civil War.

What is the Massachusetts 54th infantry.

400

This was the first major battle of the Civil War. It was fought at a railroad junction in northern Virginia on July 21, 1861. It was sobering for the Union and reaffirmed Confederate superiority.

What is the battle of Bull Run? (or battle of Manassas)

400
This was the Confederate diplomatic strategy built on the hope that European nations would break the Union and recognize the Confederacy. 

What is King Cotton Diplomacy?

400

To break apart or collapse.

What is disintegration?

400

Robert E. Lee had help winning battles from these two famous fighting confederates.

Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and James E. B. (Jeb) Stuart.

500

This Union outpost located at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina was attacked by Confederate troops after they learned that Lincoln authorized a resupply of goods, marking the beginning of the Civil War.

What is Fort Sumter?

500

The siege of this Mississippi place lasted 6 weeks. After which, 30,000 Confederate troops lay down their arms and surrendered.

What is the siege of Vicksburg?

500

This was Genderal Benjamin F. Butler's term for runaway slaves where considered confiscated property of war, not fugitives, and put to work in the Union Army.

What is contraband of war?

500

Making peace, attempting to resolve a dispute through good will

What is conciliatory?

500

This general, famous for his unique facial hair met Lee and the Confederates at the battle of Fredericksburg.

Who is General Ambrose Burnsides?

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