Trivia
The strategy often represented by a large snake; its goal was to deprive the Confederacy of goods and resources to harm its ability to fight and sustain the war.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This Union victory was the bloodiest battle in the war and a major turning point
What is Gettysburg?
This term describes paper currency, the first to be issued by the Federal Government
What are Greenbacks?
This event in 1864 was viewed as confirmation of the public's acceptance of Union abolition policies.
What is the Election of 1864?
Daily Double! The two women who served as the official head of Union nurses. They were the first to be appointed to a federal position at this level.
Who are Dorothea Dix and Clara Barton?
The plan, by the Confederacy, to withhold cotton from European markets in order to encourage intervention in the war on their behalf.
What is Cotton Diplomacy?
Daily Double! This type of ship was new in the Civil War and would signify the end of wooden ships
What is the ironclad?
Daily Double! What two political bodies ensured the failure of the Crittenden Compromise?
What is the Committee of 13 and the Senate?
What is 'attrition'?
Daily Double!
Lincoln's opponent in the Election of 1864. If elected, he promised to sue the south for peace and reverse this Union policy.What is George McClellan and Emancipation?
Idea that prevented the Union from adopting harsh war policies in the first two years of the war. Can name or describe.
What is conciliatory strategy (idea that Union war policies should emphasize reunification rather than "punishment").
The theater of war where the Union was most successful from 1861-62
What is the Western Theater?
Term for those who fled to Union lines and were freed under Union army and Congressional policies from 1861 to 1863
What is 'contrabands'?
The TWO reasons why Confederate attempts at gaining foreign allies failed.
What is
1) Europeans (esp GB) went to Egypt and India for cotton
2) support of Union's shift toward emancipation policies in late 1862
This was the Union's application of 'hard' or 'total' war through Georgia.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
This act granted lots of land to the government for the educational purposes, mostly for state colleges and universities (such as UMass Amherst!)
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
The major reason why the Union Congress passed so many Republican economic and political packages over the course of the war.
What is secession? (in other words, only the Northern, majority Republican politicians were in Congress for the duration of the war)
Lincoln suspended this in Maryland order to prevent the border state from seceding.
What is the writ of habeas corpus?
What is 1) disseminate a letter to the citizens of Maryland convincing them of Lincoln's 'oppression'. 2) invade and have Marylanders come out to assist them 3) win the battle and cause official secession!
Victory in this battle allowed for Union possession of the Northern Mississippi River. It also resulted in the temporary demotion of US Grant because of the numerous casualties
What is Shiloh?
This was the major way that women supported the war effort; it supplied overwhelmed hospitals and provided nursing and food services near the front lines
What is the U.S. Sanitary Commission?
Daily Double! What were the THREE other targets of Booth's assassination conspiracy?
Who were Sec of State Seward, VP Johnson, and Gen US Grant?