Wilderness Campaign
Which side launched the Wilderness Campaign?
What is the Union?
Which Side controlled the Sea?
What is The Union?
What number president was Abraham Lincoln?
What was number 16?
This is the new type of boat that was heavily plated with iron.
What was the ironclad?
The belief that Great Britain would support the South because cotton was important to Great Britain’s economy.
What is cotton diplomacy?
The place where the Wilderness Campaign took place.
What is Virginia?
What were small fast boats that outran the Unions blockade ships?
What is a blockade runner?
What famous proclamation, that freed southern slaves, did Lincoln write?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This new type of bullet that was made out of lead and was extremely deadly.
What was the minie ball?
The reason the South’s economy was hurt by the Union’s control over the sea.
What is trade?
The battle that ended Grant’s plans on advancing to Richmond.
What was the Battle of Cold Harbor?
What was the name of the first Ironclad?
What is the Monitor?
In what speech did Lincoln speak about liberty, equality, and democratic ideals?
What was the Gettysburg Address?
Clara Barton helped form the basis of this organization.
What was the American Red Cross?
The Union general who developed the Union’s basic two-part strategy.
Who was Winfield Scott?
The amount of soldiers that each side started with in the Wilderness Campaign.
What was 100,000 Union Soldiers and 70,000 Confederate Soldiers?
Where is the place where the monitor battled Virginia?
What is Hampton Roads?
Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell convinced Lincoln to form what commission?
What was the U.S Sanitary Commission?
This new invention created in 1844 made communication with Union generals much easier.
What was the telegraph?
The siege that forced a city into starvation, damaging their economy.
What was the Siege of Vicksburg?
The amount of soldiers from the Union that died during the Battle of Cold Harbor.
What is approximately 7,000 soldiers?
From Which states did the Unions Blockade go to?
What is Virginia to Texas?
Which right enumerated in the constitution, did Lincoln suspend?
What was habeas corpus?
This new and unusual weaponry was on board the Monitor (Confederacy) and gave it a big advantage over other ships (Union).
What was the revolving gun turret?
The fort that Lincoln resupplied and started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?