Test 1126 Flashcards
List 10 of the eleven Confederate States.
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
A ____ was furnished a house, a mule, tool, seeds, and other supplies in exchange for working the land for the owner.
Sharecropper
The first state to ____ from the Union was South Carolina.
Secede
Mississippian ____ served as President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
The opening shots of the War Between the States were fired on Fort ____.
Sumter
The War Between the States began in ____.
1861
____ wrote the words to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”.
Julia Ward Howe
The song “Dixie” was written by ____ and became a Confederate war song.
Daniel Decatur Emmett
The War Between the States was divided basically into two theaters of operation bounded by the ____ Mountains, Atlantic Ocean, and Mississippi River.
Appalachian
The nickname “Stonewall” was given to General ____.
Thomas J. Jackson
The battle between the ____ and the Merrimak was the first battle in history between two ironclad warships.
Monitor
The first Emancipation ____ was issued five days after the Battle of Antietam and only freed slaves in the Confederate State
Proclamation
General Thomas J. Jackson was accidentally shot and killed by one of his own men, which promoted ____ to say, “I have lost my right arm”.
Robert E. Lee
New York City was the scene of the worst ____ riot.
Antidraft
At Gettysburg, the ____ established positions along Seminary Ridge, and the ____ established positions along Cemetery Ridge.
Confederates… Union