Tech/Battles
Two types of new tech used during the Civil war for the first time.
What is Rifles and Cannons?
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all of the slaves, I would do it…… What I do about slavery…. I do because I believe it helps save the Union.” Who said this quote?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
True or False women disgused themselves as men and joined the Union's army.
What is True?
What year did Union get full control of the Mississippi River?
When is 1863?
Iron plates on the sides of a wooden ship, this new defense strategie was called?
What is Ironclads?
This document allowed any slave in a territory not under the Union to be a free person.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
With no men at the homestead women got what responsibility?
What is a job?
Two major cities located on the Mississippi River?
Where is Vicksburg and Port Hudson?
Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862. McCleallan attacked Lee. This was known as the bloodiest battle of the Civil war.
What is Battle of Antietam?
What event allowed African Americans to join and fight for the Union army.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
This famous lady helped lead slaves to freedom and served as a Union nurse.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
An attempt to capture a location, fort or city by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside the city surrender.
What is a siege?
This battle took place in Pennsylvania. General George Pickett led about 15,000 Confederates across a open field towards the Union's soldiers. This war strategie was called Pickett's charge.
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
This was the year that the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
When is 1863?
Known as "Angel of the Battlefield" from her patients, due to her working under dangerous conditions as a nurse. She established the red cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
What two cities did the Union lay siege on?
Where is Richmond and Vicksburg?
July 4, 1863, one of the last cities on the Mississippi river. This battle was really a siege.
What is Vicksburg?
This person did not care about whether or not slavery should exist, only about preserving the Union.
Name two famous women that worked as a nurse during the Civil war.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell, Dorothea Dix, Harriet Tubman, and Clara Barton?
The Union laid siege on Richmond for this amount of time.