7th SS Chapter 8.4 - 8.6 Key Terms

Question 1

The battle that both the Union and the Confederacy showed that their troops needed training.

Answer 1

Battle of Bull Run

Question 2

The Unions ironclad ship that fought the confederacy’s ironclad ship the Virginia.

Answer 2

Monitor

Question 3

The significant battle where Robert E. Lee had told his troops to withdraw and the Union won.

Answer 3

Battle of Antiem

Question 4

Was the Unions worst defeat in the American Civil War..

Answer 4

Battle of Fredericksburg

Question 5

This battle took place in the thickly wooded area of Chancellorsville and Robert E. Lee and Jackson had defeated the Union Troops for three days.

Answer 5

Battle of Chancellorsville

Question 6

A battle in Tennessee where the Union won.

Answer 6

Battle of Shiloh

Question 7

To free

Answer 7

Emancipation

Question 8

Lincoln’s announced preliminary proclamation on January 1, 1863.

Answer 8

Emancipation Proclamation.

Question 9

The most famous African American army.

Answer 9

54th Massachusetts regiment.

Question 10

A fort near Charleston South Carolina that the 54th Massachusetts Regiment attacked.

Answer 10

Fort Wagner

Question 11

Supporters of the war named after a poisonous snake.

Answer 11

Copperheads

Question 12

To in role someone.

Answer 12

Draft

Question 13

A tax on peoples earnings.

Answer 13

Income Tax

Question 14

Manufactures that made a fortune by profiteering.

Answer 14

Profiteer

Question 15

A military encirclement of an enemy.

Answer 15

Siege

Question 16

The three day battle that followed one of the most important events in the civil war.

Answer 16

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 17

Pickett’s last attack.

Answer 17

Picketts Charge

Question 18

Lincoln speech in Gettysburg.

Answer 18

Gettysburg Adress.

Question 19

General Grant ordered this on the South

Answer 19

Total War

Question 20

The town that General Lee fled his troops to.

Answer 20

Appomattox court house