Women In The Civil War
This Union nurse later founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
This proclamation allowed African Americans to enlist in the Union Army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This bullet caused about 90% of Civil War casualties.
What is the Minié Ball?
This act gave 160 acres of free land to settlers.
What is the Homestead Act?
What percent of Civil War casualties came from the Minié Ball?
About 90%.
What organization collected $15 million in supplies for Union soldiers?
What is the United States Sanitary Commission?
Who commanded the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
Who is Robert Gould Shaw?
This invention allowed Lincoln to get real-time battlefield updates.
What is the telegraph?
This act established new colleges for agriculture and engineering.
What is the Morrill Land Grant Act?
Why was Robert Gould Shaw buried with his soldiers?
Confederates meant it as an insult, but his parents considered it an honor.
What was one similarity between women in the North and South during the Civil War?
Both could not vote.
Which famous abolitionist’s sons served in the regiment?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Which side had the advantage in railroads, and why?
The Union, with 22,000 miles of standardized track.
This act created a national banking system and currency.
What is the National Banking Act?
What new government department was created during the Civil War?
The Department of Agriculture.
Name one way Union women directly supported the war effort.
Worked as nurses, laundresses, or in aid societies.
At which 1863 battle did the 54th Massachusetts suffer heavy casualties?
What is Fort Wagner?
This weapon allowed soldiers to fire multiple bullets before reloading.
What is the repeating rifle?
What did Lincoln suspend to suppress dissent?
Habeas corpus.
What did Confederate leaders threaten to do to captured Black soldiers?
Return them to slavery.
What was one difference between Union and Confederate women’s experiences?
Union women were more organized nationally (Sanitary Commission); Confederate women worked more locally or in homes.
How did the 54th Massachusetts protest unequal pay?
They refused all pay until it was made equal with white soldiers.
How were balloons used during the Civil War?
For reconnaissance (scouting enemy positions).
Why did Jefferson Davis struggle to unify the Confederacy?
State governors resisted central authority (states’ rights).
What did Northern women prove by organizing the Sanitary Commission?
That women could take on national, organized leadership roles in wartime.