Medicine
This was the most common surgery that was performed during the war. It took about 2 - 10 minutes to perform.
What are amputations?
This was a Union ironclad warship that defeated the Confederates' Virginia at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
What is the Moniter?
Since the Constitution did not give the president the power to end slavery, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation as this.
What is a military order?
What Union general Sherman waged on his March to the Sea that accomplished the Union plan of destroying the Southern economy.
What is total war?
Since the men were away fighting, the women in the South had to run these.
What are plantations?
The original intention of amputations was to prevent this from happening. If it did, it could cause death very soon.
What is infection?
This was the invention that was able to send electrical signals across the country in seconds which would then be decoded from morse code.
What is the telegraph?
Lincoln suspended this when he put the Copperheads in jail without trial or evidence.
What is Habeus Corpus?
This man created the Union's Two-Part-Plan, consisting of taking the Mississippi River and destroying the South's economy.
Who is Winefield Scott?
Because of the Union's naval blockade on the South, food and supplies were running low, so these started happening and Jefferson Davis requested for newspapers not to mention them.
What are food riots?
A type of deadly bacteria that could enter the body through wounds and uncovered destroyed tissue.
What is Gangrene?
This type of gun became very effective and began to replace muskets.
What is the rifle?
These were two of Lincoln's nicknames. He was called by one in his hometown, Springfield, and by the other across the country (it was more of a political nickname)
What are "Honest Abe" and "The Railsplitter"
A southern belief that European countries, particularly Great Britain and France, would help them because of trading matters.
What is Cotton Diplomacy?
When the draft law was approved in the North, many people thought it was unfair because people with more of this could escape it.
What is money?
The chemical that was used to perform anaesthesia.
What is Ether?
This invention came out of soldiers writing their names on papers and attaching them to their clothes in case of future casualties or death.
What is the Dog-Tag?
Lincoln played this role in the war effort. He used it to give direct military orders, control his troops himself, and do things the president's power couldn't accomplish.
What is the Commander in Chief?
What are bluffs?
This man encouraged the enlistment of African Americans in the war effort and argued that military service would help them earn equal rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A famous surgeon in the war who is called "The Father of Modern Battlefield Medicine".
Who is Jonathan Letterman?
This is the amount of money that it cost to embalm a general so that his remains would be preserved.
What is $200?
Lincoln's 11 year old son, Willie, died because of this disease.
What is Typhoid Fever?
Union general McClellan found this before the Battle of Antietam. It belonged to General Lee and McClellan used it to plan a counterattack.
What is a battle plan?
This man was the leader of a group of Northern democrats who were called Copperheads. They objected to abolition, wanted the war to end, and began to speak out about it. They were seen as a threat to the war effort.
Who is Clement L. Vallandigham.