The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was first issued on this date?
September 22nd, 1862.
This famous African American abolitionist and orator was a big supporter of the Emancipation Proclamation and the enlistment of African Americans into the military.
Frederick Douglass
This state is home to the Famed 54th Fighting Infantry.
Massachusetts
The conditions at the POW cams at Andersonville Ga and Elmira NY, are so good that many prisoners survive.
False, they are awful, and 1000's of prisoners die from sickness and starvation
The act of freeing something or some on is called this.
Emancipation
The Emancipation Proclamation was written by what President of the United Stated of America?
Abraham Lincoln
This former Union General was nominated by the northern Democratic party for President in 1864.
George McClellan
These states are not effected by the Emancipation Proclamation because they are not fighting against the Union.
The Border States.
The Emancipation Proclamation had an immediate impact on the South.
False, its impact was largely symbolic.
This political group shares its name with a snake in the grass.
The Copperheads
Between the date the Emancipation Proclamation was first issued, to the day it took effect, how many calendar days passed?
100 days
This female Union volunteer is known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" and goes on to found the Red Cross.
Clara Barton
This city sees the worst of the riots protesting the Draft of 1863.
New York City.
The Copperhead movement supported the Emancipation Proclamation, and enlistment of African Americans into the military.
False, they supported neither
It cost this much money to buy your way out of service in the Draft of 1863?
$300.00
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaved in what states?
States that were in Rebellion
This Union Officer from Massachusetts founds the famous Fighting 54th Infantry.
Robert Gould Shaw
This Fort in South Carolina is the sight of the legendary charge of the Massachusetts 54th Infantry.
Fort Wagner
When Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus, he could imprison political opponents without trial or evidence.
True
This was the biggest killer of Civil War soldiers.
Disease and infections
The Emancipation Proclamation is issued after a Union victory in which battle?
The Battle of Antietam
This Ohio House Representative, and self proclaimed Peace Democrat, is leader of the Copperhead Movement.
Clement L. Vallandigham
Sally Louisa Tompkins Establishes a Military hospital in this Confederate capital city.
Civil war battle field tactics were effective and advanced for their time preventing many unnecessary soldier deaths.
False, the tactics used did not match the weapons and caused high casualty numbers.
In 1862 the war department gave escaped slaves called these, the right to join the Army in South Carolina.
Contrabands