Medical Advancements
the way most people die during the war
What is disease or infection?
"General Lee, I have no division now."
Who is George Pickett?
ran against Lincoln in hopes of ending the war
Who is George McClellan?
two events leading to Bleeding Kansas
What are the Sack of Lawrence and the Pottawatomie Massacre?
the bullets the Union and Confederacy used
What are minibullets?
lead 3,000 volunteer nurses
Who is Dorothea Dix?
"The blue and gray were mingled together as though they had bled to death while trying to aid each other."
Who is John Cockerill?
Jefferson Davis asked the newspapers not to mention the riots.
What is it would have embarrassed the Confederacy and encouraged the Union?
The Dred Scott decision upsets Northerners.
What is declared the 36°30' line unconstitutional and increased the potential spread of slavery?
What is to defend the South?
surgeons used these to numb soldiers
What is ether and chloroform?
"Every man must be for the United States or against it."
Who is Stephen Douglas?
amount of people who died each day at Andersonville prison
What is 150 per day?
John Brown's Raid helped lead to the war.
What is it threatened the Southerners and encouraged secession?
Scott's two part plan
What is to cut off communication by capturing the Mississippi River and destroy the Southern economy by making a naval blockade?
used to treat infection
What is bromine?
"slavery as a system... still to exist in all the so-called loyal slave states."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
people disliked the Northern and Southern drafts
Who were unwilling white northern men fighting for southern slaves freedom and poor southern men fighting for the rich slaves?
election that led to secession and the winner
What is the Election of 1860 and Abraham Lincoln?
minibullets were deadly
What is the troops were using outdated strategies with more efficient weapons?
infection that killed many soldiers
What is gangrene?
"It was not war- it was murder."
Who is D.H. Hill?
The Copperheads and their leader
Who were northerners led by Clement L. Vallandigham who wanted the war to end, objected to abolition, and sympathized with the South?
the official start of the Civil War and the date
What is the fall of Fort Sumter, SC and April 12, 1861?
soldiers relied on this when using minibullets
What is to be able to load a gun quicker than the person across from them?