The Bullet Revolution
This is the name for the grooves inside a gun barrel that cause a bullet to spin for better accuracy.
What is Rifling?
The Union used these to send messages quickly.
What are telegraph lines?
The Augusta Powder Works mainly produced this explosive material, which the Confederacy needed.
What is Gunpowder?
Before the war, this surgical operation was the common but dangerous battlefield treatment.
What is amputation?
The slow loading process of muskets meant a soldier could fire only about this many rounds per minute.
What is three or four?
The Union laid this to quickly collect supplies.
What are railroad tracks?
The Union used this naval strategy to try and cut off the Confederacy from the rest of the world.
What is a naval blockade?
One thing the union did to improve battlefield medical treatment.
What is hiring female nurses, creating a medical hospital, or creating sanitation checks?
This clever, conical bullet was easy to load because it was smaller than the rifle barrel.
What is a Minie Ball?
(This question was not covered) This man invented morse code and commercialized telegraphs.
Who was Samuel Morse?
This was the world ranking by size of the Augusta Powder Works among all gunpowder plants.
What is the second?
Besides less room and staff, this problem with doctors made treatment dangerous.
What is incompetence?
This caused the Minie ball to expand and grip the rifling when the powder exploded.
What is a conical cavity?
Quick building of railroads and telegraphs mainly helped armies with this essential necessity.
What is communication and transportation of goods?
The Augusta Powder Works could produce this many tons of gunpowder every day.
What is 3.5 tons?
This Confederate surgeon is credited with greatly improving medical care in the South.
Who was Samuel Preston Moore?
This is about how many seconds a soldier was a "sitting duck" between shots, based on the maximum firing rate given.
What is fifteen seconds?
This is how many total miles of telegraph lines and railroad lines were laid by the union.
What is 17,000?
This man oversaw the building of the Augusta Powder Works, showing the South could industrialize.
Who was George Washington Rains?
The Union founded this to research and improve treatment.
What is the Army Medical Museum?