Words To Know

Question 1

Abolitionist

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Artillery

Answer 2

Large powerful weapons such as cannon and mortars

Question 3

Assasination

Answer 3

The murder of a prominent person such as president Lincoln

Question 4

Battery

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Battle

Answer 5

Large scale combat between two armed forces

Question 6

Blockade

Answer 6

Large scale combat between two armed forces

Question 7

Border state

Answer 7

Slave owning states that did not secede from the union

Question 8

Cartridge box

Answer 8

A leather box in which the soldier carried his rounds

Question 9

Casualty

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Cavalry

Answer 10

Soldiers mounted on horseback fighting as a unit

Question 11

Chloroform

Answer 11

The Liquid drug used to anesthesia wounded soldiers

Question 12

CSA

Answer 12

The alliance of 11 southern states

Question 13

Contraband

Answer 13

Goods illegally traded during the war

Question 14

Copperhead

Answer 14

A northern democrat who agreed with the south

Question 15

Deploy

Answer 15

To spread out army lines

Question 16

Desertion

Answer 16

To leave one ‘s military post

Question 17

Dixie

Answer 17

Slang term for the confederacy also a popular song

Question 18

Draft

Answer 18

The selection of citizens for war

Question 19

Drill

Answer 19

Instructing

Question 20

Dysentery

Answer 20

An often fatal disease of intestines

Question 21

Emancipation

Answer 21

Getting to live on your own legally

Question 22

Flanks

Answer 22

The sides of an army’s line in battle. A flanking movement is attacking the sides

Question 23

Forage

Answer 23

The search for food by soldiers often at the expense of farmers in a battle area

Question 24

Greenback

Answer 24

Paper money used during the war in the north

Question 25

Hardtack

Answer 25

Hard crackers

Question 26

Infantry

Answer 26

Foot soldiers marching and fighting together

Question 27

Ironclad

Answer 27

A ship covered with iron plates.

Question 28

Main attack

Answer 28

The big, concentrated attack against the enemy’s weak or critical point

Question 29

Minnie ball

Answer 29

The standard rifles bullet used in war.

Question 30

Picket

Answer 30

one or more responsible for guard duty, always watchful for enemy approach

Question 31

Rank

Answer 31

Military leadership in order of importance and decision making

Question 32

Ration

Answer 32

Term of food

Question 33

Rebel

Answer 33

A slang term for a soldier fighting for the south

Question 34

Recruit

Answer 34

A person who singed up to be soldier

Question 35

Rifled musket

Answer 35

The standard infantry weapon used in the war.

Question 36

Salt pork

Answer 36

The most common meal ration during war

Question 37

Secede

Answer 37

To withdraw from the union

Question 38

Strategy

Answer 38

The art of military command as to an over all plan

Question 39

Tactics

Answer 39

The art of maneuvering troops on the battle field

Question 40

Torpedo

Answer 40

Civil war term for a underwater mine

Question 41

Turning point

Answer 41

A military tactic

Question 42

Union

Answer 42

The 23 northern states

Question 43

Yank

Answer 43

Soldier who fought for the union