The Tale of the Tape
The North held a significant manpower advantage with this many million people, compared to the South's 9.1 million
What is 22.7 million?
These two technologies allowed for rapid troop movements and much faster communication than in previous wars.
These two technologies allowed for rapid troop movements and much faster communication than in previous wars
This was the Union strategy to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River to slowly strangle the Confederacy
What is the Anaconda Plan?
President Lincoln called this city the "key" to the war because its capture would split the Confederacy in two
What is Vicksburg?
This Union General led a "March to the Sea" through Georgia, destroying everything of military value.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This was the percentage of the nation's total manufacturing output produced by Northern factories in 1860.
What is 90 percent?
This new, cone-shaped lead bullet made rifles accurate at much greater ranges
What is a conoidal bullet?
Jefferson Davis's initial strategy involved this type of defensive warfare, intended to wear down the North through exhaustion
What is attrition?
This three-day battle in Pennsylvania is considered the "high water mark" of the Confederacy and a major turning point of the wa
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at this specific location.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Although the North had more people, the South had the advantage of having 7 of the 8 nation’s total of these institutions.
What are military colleges?
The Monitor and the Virginia were the first of these types of ships to battle each other in naval history
What are ironclads?
To enforce militia laws and silence dissenters, Lincoln suspended this legal order, which protects citizens from being imprisoned without trial
What is habeas corpus?
This 1862 conflict remains the bloodiest one-day battle in American history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This constitutional amendment, passed in early 1865, permanently banned slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This constitutional philosophy limited the Confederate central government’s power and interfered with Jefferson Davis’s ability to conduct the war.
What are states' rights?
Unlike European wars of the previous centuries, the Civil War was fought by huge armies made up mostly of these.
What are civilian volunteers?
This was the nickname given to "Peace Democrats" who opposed the war and wanted to reunite the states through negotiation.
What are Copperheads?
Lincoln issued this historic document following the victory at Antietam, transforming the war into a "war of liberation".
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Approximately 13,000 Union prisoners died from exposure and lack of food at this infamous Confederate prison in Georgia.
What is Andersonville?
By the end of the war, the South suffered from this staggering percentage of inflation
What is 9,000 percent?
The Civil War witnessed the first use of these for aerial reconnaissance to observe enemy troop movements
What are balloons?
In the North, a man could avoid the military draft by finding a replacement or paying this specific fee.
What is $300?
The heroism of this specific African American regiment at Fort Wagner helped overcome racial prejudices in the North.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
General Sherman stated that to end the war, he had no choice but to make the Southern population feel this specific "hand".
What is the "hard hand of war"?