Political
This side initially left most matters to state governments.
What is the Confederacy?
This type of money was printed by the Union during the war.
What are greenbacks?
Which general led the Union forces at the First Battle of Bull Run?
Who is General Irvin McDowell
This document was issued by Lincoln and declared slaves in confederate territories to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
What organization provided Union troops with clothing, food, and medical services?
This was the first legally binding draft in American history.
What is conscription?
This was adopted April 1863, requiring all farmers to turn over a tenth of their crops and livestock to the government for military use.
What is one-tenth tax.
This river was the location of the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Potomac River?
Who is John C. Fremont?
What was a special problem for Confederate soldiers due to a lack of vitamin C in their diets?
What is scurvy.
This Act, introduced in 1863, caused riots in New York City.
What is the Enrollment Act?
What was the impact of the Confederacy reliance on paper money?
What is inflation.
What was the outcome of the First Battle of Bull Run?
The Confederates won, and the Union troops retreated.
This act, passed by Congress, authorized the seizure of property, including slaves, used to support the rebellion.
What did the Woman's Loyal National League hope to achieve through energetic war service?
What is recognition and voting rights.
This rule allowed some whites on large plantations to avoid military service.
What is the twenty-Negro rule?
Besides printing money, what other methods did the Confederacy use to try to fund the war?
taxation and borrowing
This city remained secure after McClellans failed attempt to exploit Confederate losses.
What is Richmond?
This Confederate president labeled the Emancipation Proclamation the "most execrable measure recorded in the history of guilty man."
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This woman founded the American Red Cross.
Clara Barton
This president suspended habeas corpus and imprisoned about 15,000 southern sympathizers without trial.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What was the economic impact of the Confederacy's policies on the poor whites?
What is pushing thousands of civilians to the brink of starvation.
This Confederates general's actions in the Shenandoah Valley caused the Union to recall troops from McClellan's army.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
Advancing Union troops became agents of this, leading to its destruction.
What is slavery?
What type of work did working-class women do in munitions factories?
Grueling and dangerous