Section 1 & 2
How many southern states seceded in protest of Lincoln's election, fearing a federal invasion?
Seven
The Union had money, a better developed economy, banking system, and a currency known as what?
Greenbacks
In June 1861, Elizabeth Black assembled a group to lobby President Lincoln into forming what?
U.S. Sanitary Commission
How long were Soldiers supposed to be able to load, aim, and fire their rifles three times?
One Minute
What was the name of the Civil War's first significant battle?
First Battle of Bull Run
The Confederate army in Virginia was led by a General who had graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, participated in the Mexican War, and led federal soldiers at Harpers Ferry. What is the name of that general?
Robert E. Lee
What were ships with heavy iron armor known as?
Ironclads
He was Lincoln's bold and reckless commander of forces in the Union’s western campaign.
Ulysses S. Grant
This city was the largest city in the Confederacy and the gateway to the Mississippi River.
New Orleans
In this battle the Confederate army, aided by some 800 Cherokees, attacked Union forces in Arkansas. However, Union forces won.
Battle of Pea Ridge
This is when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect.
January 1, 1863
He was a sergeant in the 54th Infantry who became the first African American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor after he was shot several times while keeping the U.S. flag aloft during the battle at Fort Wagner.
William Carney
This is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment.
Habeas corpus
What was the name of the federal installation at Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, sparking the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Who devised a two-part strategy that took advantage of the Union's strengths?
(1) Damage the South's economy through a naval blockade of southern ports.
(2) Seize control of the Mississippi River to divide the South.
Winfield Scott
What was the United States Sanitary Commission's nickname?
The Sanitary
In July 1861, Lincoln ordered a General to lead a 35,000-man army from Washington, the Union capital, to Richmond, the Confederate capital. What was the name of that General?
Irvin McDowell
What other name did the First Battle of Bull Run go by?
First Battle of Manassas
During the summer of 1862, General Lee fortified his strongholds, and on June 26, he launched a series of battles known as what?
Seven Days’ Battles
The Confederates captured a Union steamship and transformed it into an ironclad, dubbing it Virginia. What was the steamship's original name before being converted?
The Merrimack
The Union's western campaign focused on taking control of this.
Mississippi River
This admiral approached the two forts that guarded the entrance to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico. Unable to destroy the forts, he raced past them and eventually took the city.
David Farragut
The freeing of slaves.
Emancipation
On New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1862, these were meetings at many African American churches where worshippers prayed, sang, and gave thanks because slavery was going to end the next day.
Night Watch
This is how African Americans served with the Union army.
180,000
These diseases were the biggest killers in the Civil War.
Typhoid, Pneumonia, and Tuberculosis
What was the name of the Fort Sumter commander who refused to comply with Confederate officials' demands to remove his federal troops?
Robert Anderson
What was the name of the Confederate President?
Jefferson Davis
What was the name of the clergyman who ran the United States Sanitary Commission?
Henry Bellows
Along a creek known as Bull Run, 22,000 Confederate troops led by a General waited for General McDowell and his troops. What is the name of the General in command of the Confederate forces?
Pierre G. T. Beauregard
The setback at Bull Run convinced Lincoln of the necessity for a better trained army, therefore who was assigned with assembling a well disciplined force of 100,000 soldiers?
George B. McClellan
General Jackson planned to wipe out Pope's army before it could join McClellan's much larger Army of the Potomac, so his troops confronted Pope's Union forces on the battlefield in August 1862. What did the three-day struggle become known as?
Second Battle of Bull Run
The Union Navy had already built its own ironclad, which was called what?
The Monitor
This was Grant's nickname because when he captured forts and outposts he told the Confederate soldiers “No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.”
Unconditional Surrender
General Grant was able to take over this city by starving it into surrender. When it fell, the fate of the Confederacy was sealed.
Siege of Vicksburg
Lincoln's Secretary of War who agreed with Lincoln that the use of slave labor was helping the Confederacy make war.
Edwin Stanton
He called January 1, 1863, “the great day which is to determine the destiny not only of the American Republic, but that of the American Continent.” He also believed that military service would help African Americans gain rights.
Frederick Douglass
He led a group of northern Democrats who began speaking out against the war.
Clement L. Vallandigham
She organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield and was known as the “angel of the battlefield”.
Clara Barton
“There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots-or traitors."
Who is the Democratic Senator who stated this?
Stephen Douglas
What is the name given to the concept that Great Britain would back the Confederacy because it required raw cotton from the South to sustain its thriving textile industry?
Cotton Diplomacy
During the Civil War, each side chose a color for its uniforms; which color did the Union choose?
Blue
What was the name of the General who arrived with 10,000 Confederate troops to Manassas on July 21, 1861?
Joseph E. Johnston
A highly disciplined army of 100,000 Union soldiers was organized under what name?
Army of the Potomac
What other name did the Second Battle of Bull Run go by?
Second Battle of Manassas
What is the name of the Swedish-born engineer who designed the Monitor?
John Ericsson
This is when rebels sprang on Grant’s sleepy camp, beginning the Battle of Shiloh, in which the Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
April 6, 1862
A Union detachment from Colorado turned back a Confederate force here who was trying to control lands west of the Mississippi.
Glorieta Pass
This was a military order that freed slaves only in areas controlled by the Confederacy.
Emancipation Proclamation
These were escaped slaves.
Contrabands
This was a group of northern Democrats who began speaking out against the war.
Peace Democrats
Clara Barton’s work formed the basis for this organization.
American Red Cross
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were all considered what during the Civil War?
Border States
Who was the first woman to be licensed to practice medicine?
Elizabeth Black
During the Civil War, each side chose a color for its uniforms; which color did the Confederates choose?
Gray
What was General Thomas Jackson's nickname?
Stonewall
In the spring of 1862, General McClellan launched an assault on Richmond. Instead of heading south for a direct assault, McClellan gradually moved his troops through the peninsula between the James and York rivers. What was the name for this move?
Peninsular Campaign
What is the name of the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War—and in American history?
Battle of Antietam
When the Virginia returned to Hampton Roads, the Monitor was ready; after many hours of engagement, neither ship sustained severe damage, but the Monitor forced the Virginia to withdraw. This victory spared the Union fleet, extended the blockade, and heralded a change in naval warfare. What is this events corresponding title?
Clash of the Ironclads
During this rebels sprang on Grant’s sleepy camp. Johnston was killed on the first day. Armies finally gave out, each with about 10,000 casualties. They both claimed victory but the Union army gained greater control of the Mississippi River valley.
Battle of Shiloh
Union volunteers also defeated rebel forces here in Arizona.
Pichaco Pass
When Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
September 22, 1862
This consisted mostly of free African Americans who in July 1863 led a heroic charge on South Carolina’s Fort Wagner.
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry
This was a nick name for Peace Democrats. They were mostly midwesterners who sympathized with the South and opposed abolition.
Copperheads
She established a small hospital in Richmond, Virginia. By the end of the war, it had grown into a major army hospital. Jefferson Davis recognized her value to the war effort by making her a captain in the Confederate army.
Sally Louisa Tompkins