Battles
This was the leading cause of death in the Civil War?
What is disease?
This side had a huge advantage in general population to recruit troops from at the start of the war.
What is the Union/North?
This famous infantry regiment was the first comprised of African Americans and were a symbol of newly defined rights and privileges of African Americans in America.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
This group during the Civil War was primarily used as medical assistants to each side.
What are women?
Most of the battles of the Civil War occurred in these two states.
What are Virginia and Tennessee?
This would lead to successful blockades and siege tactics during the war.
What is the Union Navy?
This moment gave the Union troops a new measure of resolve and moral purpose in their efforts to win the Civil War. It also gave their enemy a distraction.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This term was used to describe women who participated in medical camps during the Civil War?
What is unladylike?
This battle signified the last attempt by the Confederacy to initiate a battle.
Military leadership and experienced troops categorized this side of the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
This plan was a Union tactic of restricting supplies and reinforcements to the South by way of naval blockades.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This group was used primarily for laying railroad track, hauling away and burying dead during the beginning of the Civil War?
What are African Americans?
This battle stopped the Confederate invasion of the North, cost Lee 25% of his men, and more than 20,000 casualties were sustained in a single day.
What is Antietam?
This side had roughly 65% of the US farmland on its side.
What is the Union?
Union siege tactics lead to this social upheaval led by women in Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Bread Riot?
This right was suspended by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
What is Habeas Corpus?
The Civil War was deadlier than previous wars for these 3 reasons.
What are disease, advanced weaponry, and the fact that both sides casualties were Americans?
This side had over 40% more railroad track than its opponent?
What is the Union?
Grant's acceptance of total war preceded this tactic following the fall of Vicksburg.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This term was used to describe a Northerner who supported slavery.
What is a copperhead?