Battles & Strategies
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Confederate ports, control the Mississippi River, and capture Richmond.
Anaconda Plan
He was the President of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This document issued by Lincoln abolished slavery in occupied Confederate lands.
Emancipation Proclamation
This was the first type of tax introduced in the United States to fund the war effort.
income tax
This type of warship was covered in iron plating to protect it from cannon fire.
ironclad
This location is where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant, effectively ending the war.
Appomattox Courthouse
This Confederate general led the Army of Northern Virginia and opposed secession but sided with his home state.
Robert E. Lee
This actor assassinated Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.
John Wilkes Booth
This Confederate prison camp in Georgia had terrible conditions, leading to the deaths of nearly a third of its prisoners.
Andersonville
This strategy used by Grant and Sherman aimed at not only defeating the enemy armies but also destroying the South’s ability to wage war.
total war
This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in the Civil War.
Antietam
This Union general led the "March to the Sea" through Georgia, destroying Southern infrastructure.
William Tecumseh Sherman
He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
This practice required citizens to serve in the military unless they could pay for a substitute.
conscription
These two ironclad ships fought in a historic naval battle during the Civil War.
Monitor and Merrimack
This was the first major battle of the Civil War, ending in a Confederate victory.
Bull Run
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This Union general captured New Orleans and helped the Union control the Mississippi River.
David Farragut
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
Thirteenth Amendment
This writ, which protects individuals from unlawful detention, was suspended by Lincoln during the war.
habeas corpus
The North had several advantages over the South, list two of these advantages.
Population, Industry, Railroads, Food, Lincoln
This battle taught both sides important lessons about preparedness, such as the use of scouting and fortifications.
Shiloh
This Confederate general earned his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run for standing firm in battle.
Stonewall Jackson
This group of Northern Democrats opposed abolition and sympathized with the South.
Copperheads
This nurse later founded the American Red Cross after serving in the Civil War.
Clara Barton
The South hoped to gain foreign help from these two European countries.
Britain and France