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Civil War Quiz vocab
Civil War Quiz vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jefferson Davis | chosen by the south as the president of the confederate states of America during the civil war |
| Abraham Lincoln | president of the Union during the civil war; gave Gettysburg Adress and inagural speeches; assasinated at Ford's theater by Jonh Wilkes Boothe |
| Andrew Johnson | was Lincoln's vice president and became president when he died; a Democrat;the first president to be impeaced (because he fired a government official when there was the Ienure of Office Act which prohibited this without senate's approval) |
| Robert E. Lee | Confederate's general; surrendered at Apomattox courthouse |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union's general ; surrendered to by Robert E. Lee at Apomattox courthouse |
| Clara Barton | fed and nursed solders during the war; made food for soldiers in camp; founded the American Red Cross |
| Fort Sumter | in the harbors of Charleston, South Carolina; leaders of the confederacy decided to prevent the federal government from holding onto the fort by attacking before the supply ships arrived;south's attack on this was the begining of the civil war |
| 1st Battle of Bull Run | near a creek north of Manassas; confederate victory |
| Battle of Antietam | Civil War battle in 1862 in which 25000 men were killed or wounded |
| Battle of Gettysburg | an 1863 battle in the Civil War in which the Union defeated the Confederacy, ending hopes for a Confederate victory in the North |
| Battle of Vicksburg | in Mississippi, General Ulysses S. Grant had defeated Confederates here; Grant's troops surrounded the city and prevented the delibery of food and supplies and the confederates eventually ran out of food |
| Sherman's March to the Sea | Sherman pushed through the deep south to Atlanta and the Atlantic coast;he took Atlanta and then set out on a march cutting a path of destruction through Georgia; waged total war; his troops tore up rail lines, destroyed crops and burned and looted towns |
| Appomatox Courthouse | the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War |
| John Wilkes Booth | assasinate president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater |
| Emancipation Prolomation | an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions in rebellion against the Union |
| Gettysburg Adress | president Abraham Licoln was asked to "say a few words" at the dedication the battlefield of the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Andersonville | the camp with the worst reputation in the south; it had little shelter from the heat or cold, most slep in holes, drinking water came from one tiny creek that also served as a sewer and many died from starvation, disease, and exposure |
| Anaconda Plan | a srategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the confederacy in the civil war |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | one of the first African-American regiments organized to fight for the Union in the civil war |
| Total War | a war not only against enemy troops, but against everything that supports the enemy |
| black codes | law passed by southern states that limited the freedom of former slaves |
| freedman's bureau | a federal agency set up to help former slaves after the civil war |
| reconstruction | the process the U.S. government used to readmit the confederate states to the Union after the civil war |
| 13th Amendment | an amendment to the U.S. constitution adopted in 1865 banning slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States |
| 14th Amendment | an amendment to the U.S. constitution passed in 1868 that made all persons born or naturalized in the United States-including former slaves- citizens of the country |
| 15th Amendment | passed in 1870, this amendment to the U.S. constitution stated that citizens could not be stopped from voting"on account of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude" |
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