Squaring Up the Sides
The side during the American Civil War that had more men and resources, yet not more combat experience or fighting spirit.
What is the Northern Union?
The side that was winning the war in the early days of the Civil War.
The Southern Confederacy.
This group of people had to fill in for jobs at home during the Civil War in order to provide for their family.
What is women?
The side that eventually allowed for African-American soldiers to fight for them.
The Northern Union.
The term for defeating an army by destroying the civilian populace and land supporting the army.
What is total war?
The official names of the North and South during the American Civil War.
What are the Northern Union and the Southern Confederacy?
What is cotton?
The side that had a stronger economy during the Civil War due to industrialization.
The Northern Union.
The number of casualties that occurred during the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War over the span of 4 days.
What is 48,000-51,000 casualties?
The name of the general Lincoln put in charge of the Union armies towards the end of the war because he was a "man of action".
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
The military plan enacted by the Northern Union to blockade, "squeeze" and divide the South.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The major goal of the Union during the American Civil War.
To unify the two halves of the United States.
The act passed first by the South that forced able-bodied men to serve in the army, which was protested against by people everywhere.
What is the draft?
The bloodiest battle to occur in the entirety of the American Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The purpose of the town of Petersburg for Confederate forces that made it a major target for the Union to capture.
What is a railroad center for moving troops?
The state that President Abraham Lincoln considered to be the most important during the Civil War as to lose it would be the same as losing the entire war.
What is Kentucky?
The two nations that the Southern Confederates were hoping would ally with them during the war.
What is Great Britain and France?
The official name for the places prisoners of war were sent to by both sides during the Civil War, often forcing the occupants to face starvation, infection, disease and even death.
What are prison camps?
The name of the town that saw the Union finally gain the upper hand after seizing control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
The site where Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, officially ending the American Civil War.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
The four border states during the American Civil War that were known as "breakaway states".
What is Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky and Delaware?
The capitols of the Union and Confederacy, respectively, that either side hoped to conquer in order to end the war.
What is Washington, D.C. and Richmond?
The law suspended by President Abraham Lincoln that enabled the government to jail citizens without a trial and for an indefinite amount of time.
What is habeus corpus?
The two-minute speech delivered by President Lincoln that was intended to memorialize the sacrifice made by soldiers at the site and unify the nation.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The form of government that grew following the victory of the Northern Union over the Southern Confederacy.
What is the federal government?