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Turning Points
Vocabulary
This and That
100
The first shots were fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
100
He stole a Confederate boat, The Planter, and turned it over to the Union.
Who is Robert Smalls?
100
This is considered the greatest battle fought in the Western Hemisphere.
What is Gettysburg?
100
Ships covered by metal plates.
What are ironsides?
100
Lincoln used this to communicate quickly with his generals.
What is telegraph?
200
Sherman called this "the prettiest town in Dixie."
What is Cheraw?
200
His nickname was Stonewall.
Who is Thomas Jackson?
200
This document freed the slaves in the states that were in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
States that had slaves but did not secede.
What are border states?
200
Conscription is a word for this.
What is the draft? (or forced military service)
300
The Union gained control of the Mississippi River when this town fell in July 1863
What is Vicksburg?
300
He surrendered to U.S. Grant on April 9, 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
Lee surrendered to Grant at this town in Virgina.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
300
A rifled cannon that was used to bombard Charleston
What is the Swamp Angel?
300
The 54th Massachusetts led the attack on this fort guarding Charleston harbor.
What is Fort Wagner?
400
This town burned on February 17-18, 1865.
What is Columbia?
400
He waged "total war" on South Carolina.
Who is William Sherman?
400
This country did not enter the war on the side of the South because it had already outlawed slavery.
What is Great Britain?
400
The first submarine to sink an enemy ship during war.
What is The Hunley?
400
She was called "The Angel of the Battlefield" and went on to start the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
500
This was the headquarters for the Union blockade from 1861 to the end of the war.
What is Port Royal?
500
This was one of the first African American regiments in the war. Formed by freedmen from around Beaufort.
What is the First Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers?
500
The Emancipation Proclamation changed the North's cause in this way.
What is from keeping Union together to being a moral crusade against slavery?
500
This word means wearing down an enemy without winning a clear victory.
What is attrition?
500
This new type of bullet caused the high casualties in the war.
What is the Minie ball?
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