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Fight! Fight! Fight!
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Who was the President of the Union?
Lincoln
100
What communication tool did Lincoln use to keep in touch with his generals?
Telegraph
100
What document officially ended slavery?
The Emancipation Proclimation
100
What was the central issue of Lincoln's reelection?
Should the North keep fighting?
100
What was the name of the Union's strategy?
The Anaconda Plan
200
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
200
What was special about the Monitor and the Merrimack?
They were ironclad ships
200
Where did Lincoln's proclamation end slavery? Where did it not apply?
The Confederacy. Not the border states.
200
What was the 54th Massachusetts?
An all African American regiment fighting for the Union
200
What was the name of the South's strategy?
The King Cotton Plan
300
What military genius led the confederate army?
Robert E. Lee
300
How was the Minnie-Ball better than other bullets?
It shot straighter and farther. It be reloaded 8 times faster.
300
How did Lincoln's proclamation impact troop enrollment in the North? Why?
It increased. More African Americans and abolitionists joined the cause.
300
How could enslaved people in the South help the Union win?
Sabotage, spying, working slowly
300
Describe the Anaconda Plan.
Blockade, take over Mississippi River, invade capitol (Richmond)
400
Who took over leadership of the Union army in 1864?
Grant
400
How did railroads help the North win the war?
They could move supplies and people more quickly.
400
Which side believed that states should have the freedom to make their own laws (States' Rights)?
Confederacy (South)
400
Why was the Battle of Bull Run important?
The South showed that they were not easy to defeat.
400
Describe the King Cotton Plan?
Use cotton to gain allies, play defense, invade DC when Union is weak.
500
Who led the Union's Total War effort?
William Tecumseh Sherman
500
Which side had the technological advantage?
The North (Union)
500
What is the strategy of targeting fields, factories and civilians during war called?
Total War
500
What was the Chicago Platform?
The North should stop fighting and let the South be their own country and keep slavery.
500
What killed most soldiers during the Civil War?
Infections and disease
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