The Two Sides
This vocabulary term means a state on the border between the North and South: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.
What is a border state?
This vocabulary term means a soldier who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing in battle.
What is a casualty?
This vocabulary term means a system of selecting people for required military service?
What is a Draft?
This vocabulary term means a sudden, often violent clash; to meet, come face-to-face with.
What is encounter?
This vocabulary term means the refusal to give in
What is resistance?
The South tried to win the support of these two foreign allies of the U.S., whose economies suffered when the war disrupted the export of Southern cotton.
What is Britain and France?
This vocabulary term means Stream or smaller river that feeds into a larger river.
What is tributary?
In the Civil War thousands of women did this job.
What is a nurse or doctor?
This President resisted calls to enlist African Americans in the Union army. He feared that such a policy would be unpopular in the border states. (1862)
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
This vocabulary term means a strategy of bringing war to the entire society, not just the military.
What is total war?
By the end of the War, this many Americans had lost their lives between both sides.
What is 600,000?
The Battle for the rivers began in February 1862. Union forces captured this fort on the Tennessee River.
What is Fort Henry?
This person was an important "conductor" on the Underground Railroad and was a spy for the union.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This vocabulary term means the side or edge of a military formation.
What is the Flank?
This Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Missouri could control parts of the Mississippi River and major routes to the West. This state controlled the Ohio River.
What is Kentucky?
The attack on this fort marked the official beginning of the American Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
As the War went on, this U.S. state became one of the Confederacy's important suppliers for cattle and other food. It was also the smallest of the 11 Confederate states.
What is Florida?
This party was a short lived political party that was largely focused on removing the expansion of slavery. (created by Wilmot Proviso)
What is the Free Soil Party?
This battle, also known as Ocean Pond, forced Union troops to retreat to Jacksonville.
What is the Battle of Olustee?
This plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate coastal region and the struggle of the South by Union land and naval forces.
What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan?
On July 21 1861, about 30,000 Union troops commanded by THIS General attacked a smaller Confederate force led by General P.G.T. Beauregard.
Who is General Irvin McDowell?
This vocabulary term means a legal writ, or order, that guarantees a prisoner the right to be heard in court.
What is habeas corpus?
This act required northern citizens to cooperate with assist slave-catchers, and denied runaway slaves a fair trial. (trial in a separate court)
What is the Fugitive slave act.
In March 1864, President Lincoln put this General in charge of all the Union armies.
Who is Ulysses S.Grant?