Section 1 & 2
The number of southern states who seceded when Lincoln was elected and who feared an invasion from the North.
Seven
This was the name of the Union currency.
Greenbacks
This group worked to send bandages, medicines, and food to Union army camps and hospitals.
U.S. Sanitary Commission
Volunteer soldiers were expected to be able to load,
aim, and fire their rifles three times within this time.
One Minute
This was the first major battle of the Civil War, and the Confederates’ victory. The battle is also known as the First Battle of Manassas. It shattered the North’s hopes of winning the war quickly.
First Battle of Bull Run
He was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and had served in the Mexican War and had led federal troops at Harpers Ferry. During the Civil war he commanded the Confederate army in Virginia.
Robert E. Lee
These were war ships heavily armored with iron which the Confederacy used during the Civil War.
Ironclads
This was a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina where Confederate troops attacked, beginning the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
He was Union general who developed a two-part strategy to defeat the South:(1) destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade of southern ports, and (2) gain control of the Mississippi River.
Winfield Scott
This refers to the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
The Sanitary
Lincoln ordered him to lead his 35,000-man army from the Union capital, Washington, to the Confederate capital, Richmond in the first major battle of the Civil War.
Irvin McDowell
This was also known as the First Battle of Bull Run was the first major battle of the Civil War, and the Confederates’ victory.
First Battle of Manassas
This was Confederate General Lee's series of attacks that forced the Union army under General McClellan to retreat from near Richmond.
Seven Days’ Battles
The Confederates had captured this Union steamship and turned it into an ironclad and renamed it "The Virginia".
The Merrimack
He was the commander at Fort Sumter who refused to evacuate when Confederate troops approached.
Robert Anderson
He was the Confederate president who tried to win foreign allies through cotton diplomacy.
Jefferson Davis
He was a clergyman who ran the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Henry Bellows
He commanded some some 22,000 Confederate troops and fought McDowell's Union troops along a creek called Bull Run.
Pierre G. T. Beauregard
He was a Union general who assembled a highly disciplined force of 100,000 soldiers called the Army of the Potomac.
George B. McClellan
This was a 3-day battle during which Stonewall Jackson’s troops met Pope’s Union forces on the battlefield. The Confederates won a major victory.
Second Battle of Bull Run
This was the Union navy's own ironclad.
The Monitor
He was a Democratic Senator who supported Lincoln's call for troops and who declared, “There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots-or traitors."
Stephen Douglas
This was the idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's raw cotton to supply its booming textile industry.
Cotton Diplomacy
This was the color of the Union uniform.
Blue
When Beauregard requested assistance he headed toward Manassas with another 10,000 Confederate troops.
Joseph E. Johnston
This was a highly disciplined force of 100,000 soldiers assembled by Union General George B. McClellan.
Army of the Potomac
The Second Battle of Bull Run.
Second Battle of Manassas
He was a Swedish born engineer who designed the Union navy's ironclad which had a revolving gun tower.
John Ericsson
These included Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.
Border States
She was the first woman to receive a license to practice medicine and who organized a group that pressured President Lincoln to form the U.S. Sanitary Commission.
Elizabeth Black
This was the color of the Confederate uniform.
Gray
This was the nickname of General Thomas Jackson who led a Confederate unit of Virginians at the battle of Bull Run and who held the unit firmly in place.
Stonewall
This was Union General McClellan's effort to capture Richmond by slowly bringing his force through the peninsula between the James and York rivers instead of marching south for a direct assault.
Peninsular Campaign
This was also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg and was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War—and of U.S. history. More soldiers were killed and wounded during this than the deaths of all Americans in the American Revolution, War of 1812, and Mexican American War combined. It was a Union victory.
Battle of Antietam
This was a battle between the Confederate's Virginia and the Union's Monitor. The clash signaled a revolution in naval warfare because the days of wooden warships was over.
Clash of the Ironclads