The Battle of Gettysburg
Victors of the War
What is the Union? (good guys)
Location of Vicksburg
What is Mississippi? (mi·suh·si·pee)
Which group’s economy benefitted?
What is the Union?
How many years did the Civil War last?
What is 4 years?
Who accompanied Lincoln at the play?
Who was his wife?
Length of the Battle
What is three days?
Significance of Vicksburg
What is the Mississippi River had traffic, specifically gun shipments?
The Confederates’ inflation grew to what percent?
What is 7,000%?
What did Grant and Sherman both believe in?
What is waging total war?
Who was Lincoln’s assassin?
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Total Casualties
What is 23,000 Union men and 28,000 Confederates?
Who captured Vicksburg? (Union General)
What is future eighteenth president, Ulysses S. Grant?
The war marked the end of ______ as a labor system?
What is slavery?
Purpose of Sherman’s March
What is to frighten civilians and to ”encourage“ them to abandon confederate ideals?
Lincoln never regained __________ after being shot.
What is consciousness?
Location of the Battle
What is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania?
Was Vicksburg a one day conflict?
No
The Civil War’s cost totaled how much?
What is 3.3 billion American dollars?
Grant appointed the commander of the military division of the Mississippi; what was his name?
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Poor President Lincoln was doing what when he was assassinated?
What is he was watching a play, specifically “Our American Cousin”?
Year/Date of the Battle
What is July 1-3, 1863?
After food supplies ran so low, what did people eat?
What is dogs and mules?
Which region’s industries and farmlands were wrecked following the Civil War?
What would be the South?
What officially ended the Civil War?
What is the surrender at the Appomattox Court House?
“Sic semper tyrannis” is what Booth yells after he jumps onto the stage; this means “____ _____ __ _______!”
What is “Ever thus to tyrants!”?