Chapter 16

Question 1

Union Major who refused to surrender Fort Sumter to the Southerners; After 34 hours of fighting he formally surrenders

Answer 1

Robert Anderson

Question 2

large, powerful weapons such as cannons and mortars

Answer 2

artillery

Question 3

the type of rule in which military commanders are in control and citizens’ rights and freedoms are suspended

Answer 3

martial law

Question 4

…, Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south

Answer 4

Anaconda Plan

Question 5

Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War

Answer 5

cotton diplomacy

Question 6

A government order imposing a trade barrier

Answer 6

embargo

Question 7

general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863)

Answer 7

Stonewall Jackson

Question 8

Foot soldiers

Answer 8

infantry

Question 9

First major battle of the Civil War, in which untrained Northern troops and civilian picnickers fled back to Washington. This battle helped boost Southern morale and made the North realize that this would be a long war.

Answer 9

First Battle of Bull Run

Question 10

People who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a war

Answer 10

casualties

Question 11

A general for northern command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861; nicknamed “Tardy George” because of his failure to move troops to Richmond; lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice.

Answer 11

George McClellan

Question 12

Soldiers on horseback

Answer 12

cavalry

Question 13

Slave holding states that did not join the confederacy; very instrumental to the outcome of the war.

Answer 13

Border States

Question 14

…, an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

Answer 14

Ulysses S. Grant

Question 15

Right that was suspended by Abraham Lincoln at the outset of the war to maintain security, especially in Maryland.

Answer 15

Habeas Corpus

Question 16

(1862) the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history. It was considered a draw although Lincoln claimed victory.

Answer 16

Battle of Antietam

Question 17

(1862) an order issued by President Abraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; took effect January 1, 1863

Answer 17

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 18

the act of freeing someone from slavery

Answer 18

emancipation

Question 19

emancipated slaves

Answer 19

freedmen

Question 20

forced service in the military

Answer 20

conscription

Question 21

A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War

Answer 21

Copperheads

Question 22

A court order requiring authorities to bring a prisoner before the court so that the court can determine whether the prisoner is being held legally.

Answer 22

habeas corpus

Question 23

1821-1912, Nurse for the Union forces during the Civil Warknown as the” Angel of the Battlefield “. She later founded the American Red Cross.

Answer 23

Clara Barton

Question 24

1863, this three day battle was the bloodiest of the entire Civil War, ended in a Union victory, and is considered the turning point of the war

Answer 24

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 25

3rd day of Gettysburg, a failed Confederate led by General George Pickett. Less than half of the 15,000 Confederate soldiers in Pickett’s Charge returned to the Confederate lines.

Answer 25

Pickett’s Charge

Question 26

2nd most important Union General who introduced total war in “the march to the sea.” He destroyed crops, towns, and farms everywhere he went.

Answer 26

William Tecumseh Sherman

Question 27

Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying Atlanta and burned the city

Answer 27

Battle of Atlanta

Question 28

1865 constitutional amendment that abolished slavery

Answer 28

Thirteenth Amendment