Vocabulary
This important group of states consisted of West Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.
What are border states?
This general led the Confederate troops into war.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This is considered the start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the main cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
This was the snake-like name of Winfield Scott's plan to cut off supplies to the South by using blockades.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This was the general who twice commanded troops in the Civil War, leading to a major victory at Antietam.
Who is George McClellan?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the (First) Battle of Bull Run?
This was the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This veteran of the Mexican-American War served as the first commander of Union forces during the Civil War.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
This part of the country was where most of the major battles took place.
What is the East?
This general earned a nickname for standing up against Union troops and holding firm.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This was the bloodiest single day in the Civil War and US History.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
After the Battle of Antietam, President Lincoln issued this, freeing the slaves in the Confederate States (but not the border states) if the Union won the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The two sides chose colors for uniforms. What colors did the Union and Confederacy choose?
Union chose blue; Confederacy chose gray.
This is the name that referred to the North.
This general was making a name for himself by drinking and getting Union victories out west.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This is the battle where Jackson's troops met Pope's Union forces near Richmond, Virginia.
What is the Second Battle of Manassas?
The Union had more than double the amount of this compared to the South, which helped them move supplies and soldiers more quickly.
What are railroad tracks?
At the start of the war, the Union had 16,000 soldiers. Within months, that number swelled to how many?
This Confederate general died during the Battle of Shiloh after getting shot in the foot.
Who is General Johnston?
These battles took place when McClellan tried to take Richmond by swinging up from southern Virginia.
What were the Seven Days' Battles?
The Confederacy was hoping their production of this crop would be enough to convince Great Britain to support them during the war.
What is cotton?
This general commanded troops for the Union between George McClellan's two stints.
Who is General John Pope?