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Lincoln
Lincoln & Gettysburg
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Confederate States of America | Jefferson Davis |
| Union States | Missouri Kentucky, Maryland, and Delware stay loyal |
| Advantages for Confederates | 22 millon people, manufacturing for weapons and supplies, better transportation |
| South Advantages | 5 millon whites, better leadership, defending home soil |
| Southern Strategy | Fight a defensive war |
| Powder Monkey | A sailor who carried explosives from the ship's magazine to the ship's guns |
| South | The region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line |
| North | The region of the United States lying to the north of the Mason-Dixon line |
| Confederacy | The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 |
| Access | The right to enter |
| Union Soldier | A member of the Union Army during the American Civil War |
| Civil War | A war between fractions in the same country |
| Blockade | A war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy |
| battlefield a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | |
| administration the act of governing; exercising authority | |
| Confederate Soliders nicknamed | Yanks or Yankees |