Ch. 18 Flashcards

VOCABULARY (define)

1. Emancipation Proclamation

2. inflation

3. bounty

4. hardtack

5. Copperheads

6. Johnny Reb

7. Billy Yank/Blue Belly

8. habeas corpus

9. civilians

10. bonds

11. total War

12. tax-in-kind

13. profiteers

14. “Seeing the Elephant”

PEOPLE: (name the person that fits the description)

1. President of the Union during the war

2. President of the Confederacy during the war

3. Confederate General who was accidentally shot by his own men at Chancellorsville

4. Commander of the Union army in the West and later in the East

5. Commander of the Confederate army

6. Organized supplies for Union soldiers during the war, later founded the American Red Cross

7. Union general who led destructive march through Georgia

8. Union general who led destructive march through Virginia

9. Union general at 7 Days Battle and Antietam; replaced because he was too cautious; Democratic candidate for president in 1864

10. Union general at Chancellorsville

11. Union general at Gettysburg

12. Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army

13. Black female who spied for the Union and acted as a guide for the Union army

14. DC socialite who spied for the South; sent coded messages to the Confederates; spent the last year of the war in prison

15. Confederate general who led a charge at Gettysburg that cost him 75% of his 15,000 troops

16. Led Union troops to defeat and retreat at the first battle of the Civil War.

17. Designed a new type of cone-shaped bullet that became popular during the Civil War.

18. Disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Union army; sometimes went behind enemy lines disguised as a black slave named “Cuff” in order to spy on the Confederates.

19. Disguised herself as a man and organized her own battalion of Confederate soldiers.

20. Famous authoress who served as a volunteer nurse in a Washington, DC hospital.

21. Former slave and moving speaker who served in Union hospitals and army camps.

22. Called “Crazy Betsey” because she freed all her slaves, she sent messages in empty eggshells from Richmond to the Union army

PLACES: (name the place or battle that fits the description)

1. First major battle of the Civil War

2. The Union won the bloodiest one-day battle that took place in Maryland in Sept. 1862

3. The capital of the Union during the Civil War

4. The capital of the Confederacy--fell and burned on April 3, 1865

5. This bloody battle in Tennessee cost Grant 13,000 men and almost got him fired; gave Grant control of the UPPER Mississippi River

6. This battle marked a turning point in the Civil War; 50,000 casualties made it the bloodiest battle in North American history.

7. Rural village in Virginia where Lee Surrendered to Grant:

8. The surrender of this city meant the Union finally had control of the entire Mississippi River and cleared another route for invasion of the South

9. Name the border states that stayed in the Union:

10. This state split in two over whether or not to stay in the Union

11. Union lost 12,000 men at this Virginia battle; Gen. Burnside is replaced by Gen. Hooker

12. First action of the Civil War took place at this fort in Charleston, SC

13. General Grant lost 60,000 men during these three battles in an effort to reach Richmond.

14. The fall of this Virginia city on April 2, 1865 caused Lee to retreat to Richmond and Appomattox

DATES: Fill in the missing numbers

1. This date marked the beginning of the Civil War: April ___, 186___

2. This date marked the surrender of Lee and the end of the Civil War: April ___, 186___

3. This date marked a turning point in the civil war: July ___, 186___

MAP QUESTIONS:

1. Which battle took place in Pennsylvania?

2. Which battle took place in Maryland?

3. Which battle took place two miles outside of Washington, DC in VA?

4. Which city was taken by the Union navy at the mouth of the Mississippi?

5. Which city in central Georgia was taken and burned by Gen. Sherman?

OTHER THINGS TO KNOW AND STUDY:

Name advantages of the North:

Name advantages of the South:

Describe the Union’s strategy:

Describe the South’s strategy:

Approximately how many American men died in the Civil War?

Name of the iron clad Union ship that fought the Merrimack:

Confederate troops could have taken Washington DC after they won at Bull Run, but instead they stopped to:

Study your study guide, your battle chart, the timeline chart (for sequence questions) and your battle map.