Miscellaneous
This was a major cause of class friction in the South as well as the North during the Civil War. Hint: conscription
What is inequity in the draft systems. The rich could buy their way out of service.
This battle was considered the bloodiest day of the Civil War leaving 6,000 dead and 17,000 wounded.
What is the battle of Antietam?
The Union used its navy to patrol the Southern coastline to restrict Confederate access to supplies, known as this.
What is the Union Blockade?
This is another name for a small farmer who did not have enslaved people working it.
What is yeoman?
This man, after being fired as commanding General of the Union army ran as a democrat in the 1864 election against Lincoln.
Who is George B. McClellan.
These are a debt instrument that supply funding for war and help control inflation.
This battle was in Pennsylvania on July1-3, 1863. It was fought between General Meade and General Robert E. Lee. The battle cost Lee 1/3 of his men.
This announcement was issued by Lincoln on January 1, 1863 declaring all slaves in confederate controlled territory free.
What is the Emancipation Proclaimation?
This means to publicly declare to be wrong or evil
This man was the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The Confederate army included three regiment of indigenous people from the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee. These tribes were collectively known as what?
What are the 5 Civilized Tribes?
This battle in Tenessee between Albert Sidney Johnston and Ulysses S. Grant took place on April 6-7 1862. Grant's Union army prevailed. The Confederacy's bid to control the war in the west was lost.
What is the battle of Shiloh?
Military campaign from September through December 1864 in which Union forces moved from Atlanta, Georgia to the coast of Savannah. Carving a path of destruction as it progressed, the aim was to destroy white southerners's will to continue the war.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Marking the beginning of an activity or period in office
What is inaugural?
This man called Abraham Lincoln a dunce.
Who is George B. McClellan?
Robert Gould Shaw was a colonel for the Union who lead this company. Notable because it was the first black battalion of the Civil War.
What is the Massachusetts 54th infantry.
This was the first major battle of the Civil War. It was fought at a railroad junction in northern Virginia on July 21, 1861. It was sobering for the Union and reaffirmed Confederate superiority.
What is the battle of Bull Run? (or battle of Manassas)
What is King Cotton Diplomacy?
To break apart or collapse.
What is disintegration?
Robert E. Lee had help winning battles from these two famous fighting confederates.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and James E. B. (Jeb) Stuart.
This Union outpost located at the entrance to Charleston harbor in South Carolina was attacked by Confederate troops after they learned that Lincoln authorized a resupply of goods, marking the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The siege of this Mississippi place lasted 6 weeks. After which, 30,000 Confederate troops lay down their arms and surrendered.
What is the siege of Vicksburg?
This was Genderal Benjamin F. Butler's term for runaway slaves where considered confiscated property of war, not fugitives, and put to work in the Union Army.
What is contraband of war?
Making peace, attempting to resolve a dispute through good will
What is conciliatory?
This general, famous for his unique facial hair met Lee and the Confederates at the battle of Fredericksburg.
Who is General Ambrose Burnsides?