Matching

Question 1

Robert E Lee

Answer 1

Commander of the confederate army. He turn down Lincoln‘s offer to lead the union army. Choosing his home over his country(and making the war last much longer)

Question 2

Bull run

Answer 2

The first real battle of the Civil War. A Confederate victory, it showed Americans the war would not be over quickly.

Question 3

Antietam

Answer 3

The first union victory of the war(September 1862). Lincoln then issued the emancipation proclamation

Question 4

Emancipation proclamation

Answer 4

Freedom all the slaves in the southern states on January 1, 1863. It cannot be in force but I did give the war a higher purpose’ and discouraged France and Britain from helping the south.

Question 5

Gettysburg

Answer 5

A three day battle in Pennsylvania(July 1 to July 3) it was a union victory and was the turning point of the Civil War

Question 6

Gettysburg address

Answer 6

Lincoln gives new meaning to the war when he says we must keep fighting or else all these men will have died in vain. The union is now fighting for a” New birth of freedom in the belief that” all men are created equal”.

Question 7

Sherman’s march

Answer 7

From November to December 1864 union troops under William T. Sherman cut a 60 mile path from Atlanta to Savannah, burning and destroying everything in their path. It led to the surrender of the south

Question 8

Ulysses S Grant

Answer 8

After starting the war in disgrace he eventually became the leader of the union army. He realized the north should use their population of vanish engage in huge

Question 9

Jefferson Davis

Answer 9

1st ( and only) President of the CSA. Presided over succession from the US ran the Confederacy during the civil war

Question 10

Fort Sumter

Answer 10

Where the Civil War begins in Charleston, SC on April 12, 1861. A bloodless opening to the bloodiest war in American history

Question 11

Army of the Potomac

Answer 11

Union army in the east. Commanded by whoever Lincoln said

Question 12

Army of Northern Virginia

Answer 12

Confederate army in the east. Commanded by general lee

Question 13

Rifle

Answer 13

Gun with grooved barrel that causes bow to spin through the air

Question 14

Minie ball

Answer 14

Bullet with a hollow base, expanding one hits on impact

Question 15

Ironclads

Answer 15

Warships covered with iron, proved to be a vast improvement over wooden ships

Question 16

Copperheads

Answer 16

Northern Democrats who favored piece with the south