The Opposing Sides
Forcing people into military service?
Conscription
A ship that runs through a naval blockade to deliver goods is called what?
Blockade runner
A pioneering nurse who founded the American Red Cross and was known as the 'Angel of the Battlefield' during the Civil War.
Clara Barton
Double Jeopardy: A military blockade of a city or fortified place to force it to surrender.
Siege
To loot or plunder is called what?
Pillage
The act of wearing down by friction or pressure; in war, it refers to wearing down the enemy by exhausting their resources and personnel.
Attrition
Who was chosen by Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union army in the East after the First Battle of Bull Run?
George McClellan
Double Jeopardy: First female physician in the United States and started the first training program for nurses. Her work also led to the creation of the United States Sanitary Commission.
Elizabeth Blackwell
The turning point of the war in the East; Lee's second invasion of the North was halted by Meade in a three-day battle.
The Battle of Gettysburg
Clear sign from voters is called a what?
Mandate
A legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person has been lawfully imprisoned.
Habeas Corpus
The bloodiest single-day battle in American history; a tactical Union win that gave Lincoln the political opening to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
What was the name of one of the first African American regiments officially recognized in the North. This regiment fought bravely at the Battle of Fort Wagner where they lost over half of their regiment.
The 54th Massachusetts
A crucial Union victory in the West that gave the North control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.
Battle of Vicksburg
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant effectively ending the Civil War?
Appomattix Courthouse
Double Jeopardy: What plan proposed by Winfield Scott, wanted to create a Union blockade of Confederate ports and send gunboats down the Mississippi to divide the Confederacy. He hoped the South would eventually run our of resources and surrender.
Anaconda Plan
A decree that freed all enslaved persons in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863.
Emancipation Proclamation
What was the name of the most infamous Confederate Prisoner of War camp where 13,000 of the 43,000 prisoners at the camp would die?
Andersonville
The final General-in-Chief of the Union Army who led the North to victory and accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Ulysses S. Grant
Double Jeopardy: Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the South's war strategy that Jefferson Davis wanted to use called?
Defensive War of Attrition
Double Jeopardy: What was one of the two claims to fame of the Cuban born Union soldier named Frederico Cavada?
He flew in hot-air balloons sketching enemy positions.
OR
He documented his life at the Confederate Prisoner of War camp called Libby Prison.
Who was the commandant at the Andersonville prisoner of war camp and the only person to be executed for war crimes in the Civil War?
Henry Wirz
At the battle of Gettysburg, what was the name of the famous Confederate charge that ended in disaster?
Pickett's Charge
Why did William Tecumseh Sherman march his army through Georgia?
To divide the Confederacy in two