Lesson 1: War Erupts
The fort that the Confederacy attacked to start the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
More soldiers died from these things than from bullets on the battlefield.
What is poor hygiene and disease?
The week-long battle that ended with high causualties and a failure to capture Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Seven Days' Battle?
The first battle of the war.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
Who wrote the Constitution?
Who is James Madison?
The states that chose not to secede, like Missouri, Deleware, Maryland, and Kentucky.
What are border states?
These two new advancements in weaponry caused more causualties on the battlefield.
What is the rifle and minie ball?
The Union General who won many victories in the west.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The bloodiest day in American history at that point in the war, a draw.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
When England left us alone to concentrate on their home country, what was this called?
What is salutary neglect?
The Confederate General who was able to avoid capture until the very end of the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Private suppliers during the war were called this.
Who are contractors?
David Farragut captured this important Confederate city.
What is New Orleans?
A week of fighting that kept the Union from capturing Richmond, Virginia, a Confederate victory.
What is the Seven Days' Battle?
Sharing of power between the federal and the state governments.
What is federalism?
A plan that required a naval blockade of the coastline, taking control of the Mississippi, and capturing Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
These transformed naval warfare and were much greater than wooden ships.
What are ironclads?
The Confederate won twice at this area.
What is Bull Run?
A Union victory in Tennessee, starts advancement to the Mississippi.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
When a state does not want to follow a federal law because they believe it is unconstitutional.
What is states' rights or the Doctrine of Nullification?
The South's plan during the war.
What is the King Cotton Plan?
These two ironclads fought in a day-long battle.
What is the Monitor and the Merrimack / Virginia?
The Union General fired after the Battle of Antietam.
Who is George McClellan?
The most important port city that was captured by the Union in 1862.
What is New Orleans?
The famous Social Studies formula that Mr. Pfeiffer gave you . . . .
What is when you control Land, you control resources, and when you control Resources you control the people, and when you control the People, you control their wealth, and when you control Wealth, you gain power . . . Hence, Land = Power!