Military Tactics and Technology
These were used to transport troops and supplies quickly.
What are railroads?
The two sides in the Civil War.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
The battle considered a turning point, fought in July 1863.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The leading cause of death during the Civil War.
What is disease/infection?
A common food eaten during the war, sometimes infested with worms and weevils.
What is hardtack?
This is a new type of weapon introduced that changed how battles were fought.
The president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The battle known as the bloodiest single-day battle in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
These were placed on rifles for face-to-face combat.
What are bayonets?
A common beverage drank by soldiers.
What is coffee?
A tactic used to fight off larger forces.
What is finding high ground?
The system that forced men to join the army.
What is the draft?
He marched Union men through Georgia to the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is General William Sherman?
This weapon filled the air with smoke, making soldiers unable to see.
What is the artillery gun?
A job White women were allowed to do after men left for war.
What is teacher, nurse, or secretary?
This allowed for faster communication between commanders.
What is the telegraph?
This freed enslaved Black people in confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This significant event took place at Appomattox Court House.
What is General Robert E. Lee surrendering to General Ulysses S. Grant?
A reason medical care was not great.
What is lack of medical supplies/tools/medicine, improper sanitation, or lack of knowledge/skills?
Where is New York City/the New York City draft offices?
Soldiers used these for cover and protection.
What are trenches?
The Confederate army was made of mostly these two groups.
Who are farmers and poor White men?
The Confederate fort near the Mississippi River captured by Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Vicksburg?
Known as the "Angel of the Battlefield".
Who was Clara Barton?
Two things Southerners may have lost when Union soldiers marched through their land.
What are food, books, silver, jewelry, houses, animals, and/or crops?