Important Women
Who was the President's wife during the Civil War?
Who was Mary Todd Lincoln?
Who said, "He has lost his left arm, but I have lost my right."
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
What strategy did General Sherman wage during the March to the Sea?
What is total war?
This is what escaped slaves were called
What were contrabands?
What was the speech Lincoln gave about dedicating himself and the rest of the north to winning the war and preserving the Union?
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Who eventually founded the American Red Cross?
Who was Clara Barton?
Who said, "General Lee, I have no division now."
Who was General George Pickett?
What did General Grant do to capture Vicksburg?
What is a siege?
A northern democrat who objected to abolition and wanted the war to end
What were copperheads?
Why was freeing the slaves a topic of great concern to Lincoln?
What is because it would weaken the south and help the north win the war?
Who headed more than 3,000 women who served as paid nurses in the Union Army.
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Who said, "Already they begin to cry out for ammunition, and already the blockade is beginning to shut it all out."
Who was Mary Boykin Chesnut?
What did Lee plan to do in Pickett's Charge?
What is rushing the center of the Union line?
The constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment
What is habeas corpus?
What were the names of Lincoln's children?
Who were Robert, Todd, Tad, and William?
Who was the first woman to earn a medical license?
Who was Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell?
Who said "The blue and grey were mingled together as though they had bled to death while trying to aid each other."
Who was John Cockerill?
What did the Union navy do that cut off southern trade and hurt their economy?
What is a blockade?
The southern belief that the British government would support them because cotton was important Great Britain's textile industry
What was the cotton diplomacy?
What did Abraham Lincoln use to communicate with generals throughout the civil war?
What is the telegraph?
Who established a hospital in Richmond and cared for women soldiers?
Who was Sally Louisa Tompkins?
Who said "Let us look before us and not behind. Success and glory are in the advance."
Who is General John Pope?
What did Abraham Lincoln make to destroy the south's economy?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Union's ironclad that had a revolving gun turret, powerful guns, and thick plating
What was the Monitor?
What date did Lincoln give his inaugural address?
What was March 4, 1861?