The Civil War Begins
The two groups who fought against each other during the Civil War.
What is the Confederates and the Union?
Ordered the freedom of slaves in the rebellion states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Soldiers who were discriminated and got an unequal pay.
What is an African-American soldier?
The bloody three-day battle that is considered to be the turning point in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
The amendment that made slavery, unless as a punishment a crime, illegal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Battle that influenced each sides war strategies (dig trenches, build fortifications)
What is Shiloh?
The Confederacy relied on this to build forts and grow crops during the Civil War.
What is slave labor / slaves?
Caused many illness in the army camps because many soldiers refused to wash their hands and take baths.
What is poor hygiene?
Battle where the Union successfully took control over the Mississippi river and destroyed train track; Also considered a turning point in the Civil War.
What is Vicksburg?
The states could no longer do this because of the new authority the federal government had over them.
What is secession / seceded?
The Union's three-part plan to defeat the Confederates.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Protests against the government making people unwillingly fight to "free slaves"
What is Draft riots?
The tax that took a specific percentage of a citizen's wealth to help Congress pay for the war.
What is income tax?
Speech made by Abraham Lincoln to remind people they are fighting to keep this country together, a country many people gave their lives to give them.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The act that set up a system of federally chartered banks, set requirements for loans, and provided for banks to be inspected after the Civil War to help businesses.
What is the National Bank Act of 1863?
The bloodiest one-day battle
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Incident where the Confederacy sent two diplomats to gain Britain's support that lead to Britain threatening war against the Union.
What is the Trent Affair?
Fort where a massacre of 200 African-American prisoners (along w/ some white) took place
What is Fort Pillow?
Destroyed Southern industries and villages with the scorched earth tactic and had a major effect on the South's economy and life style.
What is Sherman's March?
The committee created by nurse , Clara Barton, after she devoted her life to helping others after the tragedies of the Civil War.
What is the Red Cross?
Technology that made rifles more efficient and had a major effect on the death rates.
What is Minié Balls?
Northern Democrats who advocated peace with the South and were arrested for disloyalty.
What is a Copperhead?
The place of the worst Confederate prison that had major health violations and mistreated the prisoners.
What is Andersonville?
The Virginia village where Robert Lee surrendered to the Union army led by Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox?
The person who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?