The Worlds of North and South
Events Leading Up to War
Civil War Technology and Medicine
Civil War on the Home Front
Fighting the Civil War
100
This cash crop led to an increase in demand for slave labor throughout the South.
What is cotton?
100
A package of laws meant to defuse sectional tensions. Included the admission of California as a free state to appease the North and a strict fugitive slave law to appease the South.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
This innovation allowed troops and supplies to be transported quickly over long distances.
What are railroads?
100
This group of people served the war effort by attending to family farms and businesses, working in factories, and serving as battlefield nurses.
What are women?
100
The largest and bloodiest battle of the Civil War; Union victory that marked a turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
This word best describes the economy of the North; examples include factories, shops, and an emphasis on manufacturing.
What is industry?
200
This book written in 1852, became an anti-slavery bestseller throughout the North helping to fuel the abolition movement.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This innovation was used by Lincoln to communicate with his commanders on the battlefield and helped the Union coordinate its war efforts.
What is the telegraph?
200
This was used by both sides in the Civil War to draft more men into service as soldiers. Hint: Vocab Word
What is conscription?
200
The first major battle of the Civil War; became an indicator of what the realities of the war would be like: chaos, bloodshed, high casualties, long & costly, etc...
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
300
The first major sectional conflict was resolved (temporarily) by this act of Congress which maintained the balance of free and slave states in the Union.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
A period of intense fighting between pro and anti-slavery forces following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
300
This new cone-shaped bullet led to improved accuracy and consequently greater deaths in the Civil War.
What is the Minié Ball?
300
This northern city was the site of the largest draft riots during the war when members of the poor and working class smashed shop window, took over police stations, broke into wealthy homes, and lynched African Americans.
What is New York City?
300
The Union's three-step strategy to squeeze the Confederacy into submission.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400
This type of slavery characterized the American South prior to the Civil War.
What is chattel slavery?
400
This Supreme Court case intensified sectional conflict by declaring that African Americans (either free or enslaved) are not and could not become US citizens.
What is the Dred Scott case?
400
Around 750,000 Americans were killed during the Civil War. While many were killed in battle, many more died as a result of this which resulted from infected wounds and poor sanitation.
What is disease?
400
The Confederate home front felt the realties of war far more than those living in the North. This new form of warfare impacted all levels of society including civilians and military alike. Homes and farms were destroyed, rail and telegraph lines rendered useless, and fields of crops were burned to prevent food and supplies from reaching the enemy.
What is total war?
400
This allowed the Union to slowly starve the Confederacy of food, medical, and military supplies while also ensuring their cash crops couldn't be brought to foreign markets.
What is the naval blockade?
500
This major engineering project connected New York City to the Great Lakes and made possible the commerce and trade of millions of dollars in goods each year.
What is the Erie Canal?
500
This controversial figure was considered a hero to abolitionists in the North and a terrorist by the South. His raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry failed to inspire a slave revolt.
Who is John Brown?
500
To prevent infections such as gangrene, soldiers wounded in battle often underwent these painful operations to remove injured limbs, leading to the birth of the modern prosthetics industry.
What is amputation?
500
Along with government contracts to manufacture war goods and the creation of greenbacks to help pay for the war, the federal government authorized this for the first time ever.
What is income tax?
500
In July 1863, the Union won a decisive victory by capturing this fortress which controlled access up and down the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?