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Vocab
100
The turning point battle of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
100
Two Confederate advantages during the Civil War.
What are fighting a defensive war, surperior military leadership, and strong fighting spirit?
100
The leader of the Union army at the conclusion of the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
100
The location of the Confederate capital.
Where is Richmond, Virginia?
100
He assassinated President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
The bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
200
The main economic differences between the North & South before the Civil War.
What was agricultural in the South; while the North was agricultural and industrial?
200
The way advancements in weapons (such as the ironclads, rifle, & minie ball) improved warfare.
What are improved accuracy, distance, and casualty rates?
200
The president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200

African American military unit that led the charge on Fort Wagner in South Carolina

54th Massachusetts Infantry

300
This siege allowed Grant to cut the Mississippi in two.
What is Vicksburg?
300
This general is famous for his use of total war from Atlanta to Savannah, G.A.?
Who is William T. Sherman?
300
The border states that Lincoln did not want to lose to the South.
What are Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland?
300
The president in 1860 and re-elected in 1864.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300

unsuccessful attack made by the Confederacy on Union troops during the Battle of Gettysburg

Pickett's Charge

400
The location of Robert E. Lee's surrender to Ulysses S. Grant.
Where is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
400
The document that resembles Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, because it also supports self-government and human rights.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
The reason the South believed they could gain European allies.
What is due to King Cotton?
400
The location of the Union capital.
Where is Washington, D.C.?
400

Another word for escaped slaves

Contrabands

500
The location for the start of the Civil War.
Where is Fort Sumter (Charleston, SC)?
500

This person came up with the Anaconda Plan

Winfield Scott

500
The way men from the North & South could avoid the draft.
What is pay for a substitute?
500
After the Battle of Antietam, this document freed slaves in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500

type of warfare in which civilian and economic resources are destroyed

Total War