The Call to Arms
Early Years of the War
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Civil War and American Life
Decisive Battles
100
Provide two examples of advantages in the South.
Military experience, fought on their own territory, local people would help.
100
These warships were covered with protective iron plates.
What is ironclads?
100
To free.
What is emancipate?
100
A constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment?
What is habeas corpus?
100
An attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting off until the people inside surrender.
What is a siege?
200
List two advantages in the North.
Had factories, large population, twice as much railroad track, more farmland, more resources.
200
After the Union's defeat at Bull Run, Lincoln removed McDowell and put who into command?
Who is George McClellan?
200
True or False:  Lincoln did not really care if slavery existed?
True, he only wanted to restore the Union.
200
A general rise in prices?
What is inflation?
200
A battle that occurred on Union soil on June of 1863.
What is Battle of Gettysburg?
300
How did President Lincoln respond to the surrender of Fort Sumter?
He ordered 75,000 troops to put down the rebellion.
300
The Confederate capital.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
300
This document had little immediate effect at first and only had an effect when the Union was presently fighting.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
A tax on money people receive.
What is an income tax?
300
Lincoln wanted to gather people on the battlefield to honor the soldiers who died and to look ahead to more Union victories.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
What battle happened on July 21, 1861?
The First Battle of Bull Run?
400
Won the Battle of Antietam because the other side retreated.

What is the Union, or the North?

400
In what ways did African Americans participate in the Civil War.
What is fighting with the Union army, worked in noncombat roles, passed on information, and resisted slavery?
400
Required military service.
What is a draft?
400
An all-out attack aimed at destroying an enemy's army, its resources, and its people's will to fight.
What is total war?
500
What two camps were the worse in the North and South for prisoners?
What is Elmira, New York and Andersonville, Georgia?
500
A battle that happened on April 6, 1862 that allowed the Union to gain control of  western Tennessee and part of the Mississippi River.
What is The Battle of Shiloh?
500
What country would not recognize the South's independence after the Emancipation Proclamation was delivered?
What is Britain?
500
A job that was not considered "proper" for women during the Civil War.
What is nursing?
500
This person was surrounded with no escape; he had lost too many men in a long, bloody conflict and had little hope of reinforcements.
What is General Lee?
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