Category: (Union) Northern Strategy
The multi-part Union strategy to "strangle" the Confederacy by blockading ports and seizing the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The site in Charleston Harbor where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in April 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
The South Carolinian and former slave who escaped to freedom by piloting the CSS Planter past the Union blockade.
Who is Robert Smalls?
Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.
What is Sectionalism?
Union soldiers typically wore this color uniform, whereas Confederate soldiers primarily wore this color.
What are Blue and Grey?
This naval tactic used by the Union prevented South Carolina from exporting cotton or importing war supplies.
What is a Blockade?
This Confederate strategy relied on the hope that European nations would intervene to protect their supply of Southern fiber.
What is King Cotton Diplomacy?
The 1863 battle in Pennsylvania is often called the "high water mark" and the major turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
What is Secession?
This side had a significantly larger population and more than double the number of soldiers by the end of the war.
What is the Union (North)?
President Lincoln's 1863 executive order redefined the purpose of the war to include the end of slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The name of the Confederate submarine, the first in history to sink an enemy warship, which operated off the coast of South Carolina.
What is the H.L. Hunley?
The Union General who led a "March to the Sea" and burned a path of destruction through Columbia, SC.
Who is William T. Sherman?
The term for a compulsory military draft, which led to "rich man's war, poor man's fight" protests.
What is Conscription?
Most soldiers on both sides shared this common background before joining the military.
What is farming?
A military strategy used by Sherman in South Carolina designed to destroy not just armies, but the resources and will of the civilian population.
What is Total War?
This term refers to the South's "defensive" strategy of outlasting Northern resolve rather than conquering Northern territory.
What is a War of Attrition?
This 1863 Union victory gave the North control of the Mississippi River, successfully splitting the Confederacy in two.
The set of three constitutional amendments (13th, 14th, 15th) that abolished slavery and established citizenship and voting rights.
What are the Civil War Amendments?
To avoid the draft, wealthy Union citizens could use this method to stay home.
What is hiring a substitute?
The Northern economy was built on this, while the Southern economy relied almost entirely on this.
What are Industry/Manufacturing and Agriculture?
This famous abolitionist and former slave served as a scout, nurse, and spy for the Union Army.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Union soldiers were often called this nickname, while Confederate soldiers were known as this.
What are Yankees and Rebels?
This woman worked as a domestic servant in the Confederate White House to spy on President Jefferson Davis.
Who is Mary Jane Bowser?
Civil War soliders from the Union were called _______ . Confederate Soldiers were called by this nickname.
What are Yankees and Rebels?