Vocabulary
What started the civil war
What is slavery?
An area where few people live
What is a frontier?
He was 16th president of the United States
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The first major engagement in battle in the war
What is the first battle of bull run?
This strategy was used by the Union to blockade the south and seize the Mississippi
What is the anaconda strategy?
The south had large farms called these
What is a plantation?
Made official through singing or voting
What is ratification?
Who was in charge of all confederate forces
Who was Robert E. Lee
The bloodiest single day battle in the war
What is the battle of Antietam?
A traditional approach of lining up troops for frontal assualt
What is linear tactics?
The south did this and became a new country
What is secession?
Something said or written in memory of a dead person
What is an epitaph?
Who was the president for the Confederates
Who was Jefferson Davis?
A three day battle fought between July 1st and July 3rd
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
A Union strategy to destroy the enemies economy and will to fight
What is hard war?
One of these killed Lincoln
What is an assassin?
An executive order issued on January 1, 1863 to release all slaves
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
He captured an important city in December and sent a telegram to Abraham Lincoln and called it a Christmas gift
Who was William Sherman?
The battle that gave control of the Mississippi river to the Union
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
A Union strategy to wear down the Confederacy over time by using it's superior resources
What is attrition?
A line of slaves bound together by chains
What is a coffle?
Thrown out, canceled
What is repealed?
He died by a heart attack in 1885
Who was George B. McClellan?
The final major battle of the war
What is the battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
A strategy which to focus protect the southern territory
What is the Confederates defensive strategy?