Civil War

Question 0

Secession

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Withdrawal from a nation

Question 1

Abolitionist

Answer 1

Term for reformers who worked to end slavery

Question 2

Popular sovereignty

Answer 2

Principle that settlers within a federal territory have the power to decide the legality of slavery within that territory

Question 3

Conscription

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Drafting men into military service

Question 4

Habeas corpus

Answer 4

Right of an arrested person to go to court and find out why he or she is being held

Question 5

Martial law

Answer 5

A form of military rule that suspends some rights

Question 6

Greenbacks

Answer 6

Paper money that was not backed by silver or gold

Question 7

Drinking gourd

Answer 7

Term for the big dipper they gave directions to enslaved people on the Underground Railroad

Question 8

John brown

Answer 8

Abolitionist who seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry intending to free and arm enslaved men and woman in the surrounding area. He was captured, tried, and executed for his crime. Brown became a martyr for the abolitionist cause to the northerners and southerners viewed him as a murderer/criminal who was justly punished

Question 9

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 9

Republican elected president in 1860- he did not initially have a goal of eliminating slavery when he became president but he hoped to contain it where it was and believe that it may end overtime. Upon his elections seven Southern states seceded. Lincoln’s first motivation in the Civil War was to restore the union, later when he believed it would help the cause he abolished slavery and the seceded states with the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln was smart and ambitious. He was an inspirational speaker who many believed would have been the one person best able to “bind up the nations wounds” after the war. He was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, just five days after Lee’s surrender.

Question 10

Robert E. Lee

Answer 10

Commander of the confederate forces

Question 11

Jefferson David

Answer 11

President of the Confederacy

Question 12

Fredrick Douglas

Answer 12

Freed black man who was an inspirational speaker/writer for the abolitionist cause

Question 13

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 13

Commander of the Union forces

Question 14

Clara Barton

Answer 14

Civil war nurse who later founded the American Red Cross

Question 15

Harriet Tubman

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Underground Railroad agent who after escaping herself return to the south again and again, freeing more than 300 others

Question 16

John Wilkes Booth

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A fanatical Confederate sympathizer who assassinated Abraham Lincoln

Question 17

George McClellan

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Union general who was given control of the Union Army to re-organize and train the men following the loss at Bull Run.

Question 18

William T. Sherman

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Union Gen. who occupied and destroyed much of the south including Atlanta, GA before he began a “march to the sea” to Savannah, GA destroying everything in their path, as part of grants war strategy to completely conquer the south and force a surrender.

Question 19

Underground Railroad

Answer 19

A network of paths through the woods and fields, river crossings, boats and ships, trains and wagons that provided many enslaved African Americans in slave states with the opportunity for assistance in finding freedom - It was started by Quakers, a religious group in Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Question 20

Bull Run

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First major battle of the Civil War - people from D.C. came to watch and fled when the fighting became intense- woke people up to the reality of the war and how tough the Southerners would be to beat.

Question 21

Yankees

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Nickname for union troops

Question 22

Rebels

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Nickname for confederate soldiers

Question 23

Casualties

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People killed or wounded

Question 24

Blockade runners

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Confederate ships that were used to break through the union lines of defense

Question 25

Antietam

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Sept. 17, 1862 - bloodiest single day of the Civil War (6,000 dead and 17,000 severely wounded). After this battle Lincoln decided to take action against slavery.

Question 26

West Virginia

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In 1861, 48 counties of Virginia separated themselves from the confederacy to stay part of the union and called themselves West Virginia

Question 27

Stephen Douglas

Answer 27

Lincolns senatorial race candidate. Lincoln and Douglas primarily debated the slavery issue. Douglas won the position.

Question 28

Women did in war-

Answer 28

Ran plantations, did field work, worked in factories or at home, made army supplies and were nurses

Question 29

Union

Answer 29

Increased taxes, borrowed money, and printed greenbacks