Civil War Vocabulary
To discuss or bargain between two or more parties in order to reach an agreement.
What is negotiate?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The winner of the first battle of the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man was the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The act of removing oneself from an organization or alliance.
What is secede?
The Union general President Lincoln trusted most of all.
Who is Ulysses A. Grant?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is Bull Run?
Northern Democrat candidate for president in 1860?
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The first state to secede?
What is South Carolina?
Weapons, ammunition, and equipment used in war.
What is munition?
This Confederate general stood 'like a stone wall' during the battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson?
After the Battle of Chancellorsville, Lee marched____into Pennsylvania.
What is north?
The sight where Robert E. Lee surrendered.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The period after the Civil War when America was being rebuilt by reuniting the nation physically, socially, and politically.
What is Reconstruction?
The act of paying to gather information about the enemy's positions and weaknesses.
What is scouting?
He captured and burned Atlanta, an important rail hub for the Confederacy.
Who is William T. Sherman?
The battle that had a profound influence on the Civil War was fought here.
What is Gettysburg?
The principle that the federal government has only limited authority over each state.
What is states' rights?
The capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond, VA?
Military operation in which a city or fort is completely surrounded, cutting off help and supplies in order to force a surrender.
Temporary fortification where guns are mounted.
What are siege and siegeworks?
He attempted to capture Richmond from the Confederates in the Peninsular Campaign.
Who is George McClellan?
The bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War was fought here.
What is Antietam?
The notice that promised to free all enslaved people.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The election of 1860 meant this for many Southerners.
What is the end of their way of life?