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US HIST 16
US Civil War review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The battle that was the turning point in the Civil War for the Union. | Gettysburg |
| A policy made by Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves during the Civil War in hopes they would help the Union | Emancipation Proclamation |
| The first shots of the Civil War | Fort Sumter |
| The battle that made it clear that the Civil War would NOT be short. | First Battle of Bull Run |
| This person performed on the battlefield and formed the future American Red Cross | Clara Barton |
| The place where Confederate troops surrendered to the Union army | Appomatox Courthouse |
| The military commander for the Union and later president | Ulysses S. Grant |
| The military commander for the Confederate States | Robert E. Lee |
| The Confederate States of America | South |
| The Union | North |
| A naval battle that ended in a draw because of the new ironclad ships | Hampton Road/ Monitor and Merimack |
| Confederate victory even though they had fewer troops than the Union | Battle of Chancellorville |
| This victory allowed the Union to control the southern half of the Mississippi and divide the Confederacy. | Battle of New Orleans |
| Ships heavily armored with metal that made wooden ships outdated | Ironclads |
| The South's hope to get help from Great Britain in the Civil War | cotton diplomacy |
| A war strategy of destroying everything, including civilians' things in a place | total war |
| Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, who had slaves, but sided with the Union | border states |
| The 3-month campaign in which the Union destroyed everything in their path from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia | Sherman's March to the Sea |
| Bloodiest SINGLE DAY battle in the Civil War. | Battle of Antietam |
| The location where most of the damage and fighting happened | Confederate States of America |
| The capital of the Confederate States of America | Richmond, Virginia |
| The side with the most industry, railroads and largest population | Union |
| Reason the fighting was so close for so long | the Southerners were protecting their homes |
| new communication that allowed Lincoln to direct the fighting from Washington DC | telegraph |
| After stopping all food into this place, the Union victory that gave the United States full control of ALL of the Mississippi | Battle of Vicksburg |
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