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Vocabulary
Major Battles
Key people
African Americans
Bonus
100
The idea that Great Britain would support the confederacy, because it needed the south's raw cotton for its textile industry.
What is Cotten diplomacy?
100
The first major battle of the civil war and the confederates victory.
What is the first battle of bull run?
100
Wrote the emancipation proclamation.
Who is president Lincoln?
100
The freeing of slaves
What is emancipation?
100
A one mile march made by the confederates slowly up toward cemetery ridge.
What is Pickett's charge?
200
Warships that were heavily armored with iron.
What are ironclads?
200
Also known as the battle of sharpsburg, was the bloodiest single-day battle of the civil war.
What was the battle of Antietam?
200
Led the confederates in a one mile charge slow lye up toward cemetery ridge.
Who was George Pickett?
200
Believed that military service would help African Americans gain rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
Midwesterners that sympathized the south and opposed abolition.
Who are copperheads?
300
People who worked to end slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
300
Battle in which the union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
What is the battle of Shiloh
300
Practiced total war to destroy the souths economy.
Who was William. T Sherman?
300
180,000 served in the army and were paid $10 dollars a month.
Who are African Americans?
300
A knife that can be attached at the barrel of a rifle.
What is a bayonet?
400
Escaped slaves.
Who are contrabands?
400
A battle were Grants troops starved the city into surrender.
What is the siege of Vicksburg?
400
Organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battle fields.
Who is Clara Barton?
400
The order to free confederate slaves.
What is the emancipation proclamation.
400
Slave states that did not join the confederacy.
What are border states?
500
Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
What is habeas corpus?
500
A key battle that finally turned the tide against the confederates and was known as the bloodiest battle of the civil war.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
500
Assembled a highly disciplined force of 100,000 soldiers called Potomac.
Who is George B. McClellan?
500
Consisted of mostly freed African Americans and led a heroic charge on south Carolina's fort Wagner.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
500
Where lee surrendered to grant thus ending the civil war.
What is the Appomattox courthouse?