The Opposing Sides
What is the forcing of people into military service called?
Conscription
What name was given to small, fast sailing vessels that the South used to smuggle goods past the Union blockade of the South?
Blockade Runners
What name was given to the staple food of the Civil War, a buiscut made out of wheat flour?
Hardtack
What is it called when anarmy cuts off food and supplies and bombards a fort or city until its defenders give up?
Siege
A clear sign from the voters is called what?
Mandate
What was the name of the Union plan that proposed a blockade of the Confederacy as well as sending gunboats up the Mississippi River to divide the South?
Anacanda Plan
What was the name of the proclamation made by Abraham Lincoln which freed all enslaved persons in the states that were still in rebellion?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What was the first female physician in U.S. history?
Elizabeth Blackwell
The most famous advance in a battle was during the Battle of Gettysburg. The Confederate army, in an attempt to break the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, charged the Union line and lost over 15,000 men. From this point on the Confederacy would be on the defensive. What was the name of this charge?
Pickett's Charge
What Constitutional amendment banned slavery?
13th Amendment
The Confederacy wanted what two countries to enter the war on their side so they could use their navies and economies to help in the war against the Union?
Britain and France
What did the South use to try to break the Union blockade?
Gunboats and/or tugboats
Why were African Americans so willing to fight in the Civil War?
They were fighting for freedom
The Confederate defeat at the Battle of Chattanooga cleared the way for a Union invasion of what southern state?
Georgia
What was the name of the Union General who marched his army through Georgia in what became known as "___________March to the Sea." It was the first time in United States history that the tactic of "total war" was used.
General William Sherman
To help fund the war, the Union imposed a new tax which still exists to this day. What was the name of tax created during the Civil War?
Income tax
After a victory at what battle, did the South begin their invasion of the Union?
The Second Battle of Bull Run
What was the most common role that women played serving in the Civil War?
Nurses
What were the names of the two Union victories around and on July 4th, 1864 that was the turning point of the Civil War?
The Battle of Vicksburg and Gettysburg
What were the two names of the of generals who surrendered and accepted the surrender terms at Appomatox Courthouse?
What was the South's war strategy called?
Defensive War of Attrition
Who led the Confederate forces at the First Battle of Bull Run?
General P.G.T. Beauregard
What was the name of one of the first all African American regiments in the Civil War?
The 54th Massachusetts
Double Jeopardy: What was the name of the address that Lincoln gave after the Battle of Gettysburg in which he explained that the war was not a battle between regions but a fight for freedom?
Gettysburg Address
Why did Grant decide to lay siege to Petersburg?
Cut the only rail line to Richmond