ch 16 Vocab Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Fort Sumter | federal fort located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Southern attack on fort marked beginning of the Civil War |
Robert E. Lee | general of the Confederacy |
border state | slave states that bordered states where slavery was illegal |
King Cotton | way to win foreign support |
Anaconda Plan | strategy where the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War |
blockade | when armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area |
First Battle of Bull Run | 1861 battle of the Civil War where the South shocked the North with a victory |
hygiene | conditions and practices that promote health |
rifle | gun with a grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin through the air |
minie ball | bullet with a hollow case |
ironclad | warship covered with iron |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union general in the west |
Battle of Shiloh | 1862 battle in which the Union forced the Confederacy to retreat in some of the fiercest fighting in the Civil War |
cavalry | soldiers on horseback |
Seven Days' Battles | 1862 Civil War battle in which the Confederacy forced the Union to retreat before it could capture the Southern capital of Richmond |
Battle of Antientam | Civil War battle in 1862 in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded |
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