Civil War

Question 1

A person who believed in the abolishment or abolition of Negro slavery

Answer 1

Abolitionist

Question 2

Large, powerful weapons such as Cannon and mortars.

Answer 2

Artillery

Question 3

The muddier of a prominent person such as President Lincon

Answer 3

Assassination

Question 4

A unit of four or six cannons, or a fortified position on which they are placed

Answer 4

Battery

Question 5

Large scale combat between two armed forces ( skirmishes and engagements are smaller scaled and briefer)

Answer 5

Battle

Question 6

The closing off, using naval forces, of a city or other area to traffic and communication

Answer 6

Blockade

Question 7

Slave-owning states that did not secede from the Union: Kentucky, Delaware,and Missouri

Answer 7

Border state

Question 8

A leather box in which a solider carried his rounds or bullets.

Answer 8

Cartridge Box

Question 9

A person killed, wounded, captured ,or missing during the war.

Answer 9

Casualty

Question 10

Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit

Answer 10

Cavalry

Question 11

The liquid drug used to anesthetize (put to sleep) wounded soldiers in the war.

Answer 11

Chloroform

Question 12

The alliance of 11 Southern states to form the Confederate States Of America

Answer 12

Confederacy or CSA

Question 13

Goods illegally traded during wartime. Slaves were sometimes called contraband during wartime

Answer 13

Contraband

Question 14

A Northern Democrat who agreed with Southern secession and claymores for peace during the war

Answer 14

Copperhead

Question 15

To spread out armies to create a battle line

Answer 15

Deploy