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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ironclads | a warship that is heavily armored with iron |
| Cotton Diplomacy | Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War |
| Battle of Shiloh | a Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi River valley |
| Emancipation | The freeing of slaves |
| Fort Sumter | a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by the Confederates in April 1861, sparking the Civil war |
| Total war | a type of war in which an army destroys its opponent’s ability to fight by targeting civilian and economic as well as military resources |
| Copperheads | a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War |
| George B. McClellan | American army general put in charge of Union troops and later removed by Lincoln for failure to press Lee’s Confederate troops in Richmond. |
| Siege of Vicksburg | the Union army’s six-week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender during the Civil |
| Battle of Gettysburg | a Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania |
| List Union and Southern Advantages - at least 2 for each side: | The union advantages were the larger population and more extensive railroad. Does Southern advantages were fighting a defensive War and strong military |
| What was important about the battle between the Merrimack and the Monitor? | It was important because it was the first Naval battle fought between Ironclad warships |
| Make a list of the Confederate, Union, and Border States. | Confederate States are South Carolina Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia. Union states are Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York. The border states were Delaware Maryland Kentucky Missouri West Virginia |