Vocab Words
What is the name for a military blockade of a city or fortified place to force it to surrender?
What is a Siege?
What was the last General of the North that lead the army of the potamac to victory and General Lee surrendered to him at Appomatix Courthouse?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Who was the ost famous and popular general during the Civil war who was asked to lead the Norhtern army by Lincoln but declined?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Where was the first major battle of the civil war fought during which the wealthy people from Washington DC came out with picnic baskets to watch?
What was the Battle of Bull Run or the Battle of Manasses?
What is the name for a piece of U.S. paper money first issued by the North during the civil War?
What is a Greenback
What is the term that means to search or raid for food?
What is Foraging?
Who was the General of the Calvary of the North who famously held the high ground on the first day of the Battle at Gettysburg?
Who was General George Buford?
What General earned his nickname for his bravery at the Battle of Bull Run and eventually died from being accidentally shot by friendly fire from his own men?
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
What fort was attacked at the start of the civil war by the south?
What is Fort Sumpter?
What is the term used during the civil war for requiring people to enter military service?
what is Conscription?
a person, especially a member of the military, captured in war is called a _________________________?
What is a prisoner of war?
Who was Lincoln's powerful Secretary of State who helped get the 13th ammendment passed and was stabbed but didn't die on the same day Lincoln was shot?
Who was William Seward?
Who was elected president of the Confederate States?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
What city in Mississippi was sieged in 1863 and eventually fell to Ulysses S Grant?
What is Vicksburg?
What is the legal term that comes from latin meaning a legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned?
what is habeas corpus?
What is the term for money given as a reward, such as to encourage enlistment in the army
What is bounty
Who was the timid commander of the northern army of the Patomac from 1863 to 1865 and was in command at Gettysburg but the soldiers of the north did not really respect him?
General George Meade
What brave and popular General lead the charge on the last day of the battle of Gettysburg losing nearly all of his division in the battle?
Who was General George Picket?
Which battle was one of the largest and bloodiest battles and turned the tide of the war in favor of the North after a strong victory against the main forces of General Lee?
What is Gettysburg?
The act of wearing down by constant harassment or attack is called?
what is attrition?
What was the name for a hard biscuit made of wheat flour?
What is hardtack?
What highly respected northern General was shot during the final battle at the angle at Gettysburg and also had a good friend who was a general of the South name Lewis (Lo) Armistead?
General Winfield Hancock
What General of the south was an innovative Cavalry leader and after the war he was the first Grand Wizard Of Ku Klux Klan
Who was Nathan Bedford Forrest
What battle is known as the bloodiest day in American History and took place on September 17, 1862 near Sharpsburg Maryland?
What is the Battle of Antietam?
what is the term for a ship that runs through a blockade usually to smuggle goods through a protected area?
what is a blockade runner?