Events that happened BEFORE the Civil War
The North
The South
Civil War Battles
Miscellaneous
100
As a result of this war, Mexico had to give up a large part of land that includes modern day California and Texas. (What is the name of this war?)
What is the Mexican American war?
100
This is another name for the NORTH during the Civil War
What is the Union?
100
This is another name for the SOUTH during the Civil war.
What is the Confederacy?
100
These were the years that the Civil War was fought in the United States.
What is 1861 to 1865?
100
This was a battle in the Mexican American War in which every Texan was killed while holding off the Mexican army.
What is the Alamo?
200
This vocabulary word means to kidnap a person and force him to fight for your army.
What is impressment?
200
He was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
He was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This was the first battle in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
200
This is the name of the stale bread that soldiers had to eat during the war. It was very hard and sometimes had worms in it.
What is hardtack?
300
The impact of the Louisiana Purchase was...
that it doubled the size of the United States.
300
The North viewed him as a hero, because he was a violent abolitionist who tried to lead a slave revolt in the South.
Who is John Brown?
300
He was the General of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
300
This was one of the turning point battles of the War. In 3 days, 50,000 soldiers were killed.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
This new machine of the 1800s increased the need for slaves in order to harvest more of a crop.
What is the cotton gin?
400
Name the two men who led a journey across the United States to make a path to the Pacific Ocean.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
400
This is the name of the plan the Union used to defeat the Confederacy by suffocation or starvation (or cutting off their resources)
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400
This vocabulary word is another way to say that the South wanted to separate itself from the Union.
What is seccession or secede?
400
This battle happened in Maryland. It was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
400
Name two modes of transportation that changed life in the 1800s.
Railroads Steamboats (the National Road) (Canals)
500
This vocabulary term means people could vote to decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in their state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
Name two advantages the North had in the war.
Railroads More soldiers Factories to produce more weapons
500
Name 2 advantages the South had in the war.
Home field advantage Strong army Strong leaders
500
In this turning point battle, the Union surrounded a city, cut off its resources, and attacked the people with guns and cannons.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
500
Name two problems the soldiers of the Civil War faced.
little or no food, or bad food disease violence amputation few supplies
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