1. Jeopardy!!
Unit 16 Review

2. Battles
Leaders
States
Misc.
Strategy
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3. The first shots of the Civil War were fired when the Confederates seized this fort, a U.S. fort on an island in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

4. What is Fort Sumter?

5. The first major land battle of the Civil War.

6. What is the First Battle of Bull Run?

7. This was the bloodiest one-day battle ever fought by Americans.

8. What is the Battle of Antietam?

9. This battle, fought in April, 1862 in Tennessee was the fiercest fighting the Civil War had yet seen. About ¼ of those who fought died.

10. What is the Battle of Shiloh?

11. This week of battles in June, 1862 forced McClellan’s army to retreat, preventing the Union from capturing Richmond, VA.

12. What are the Seven Days’ Battles?

13. The election of this man caused the South to secede from the Union.

14. Who is Abraham Lincoln?

15. Although he expected to be given a military command when the Confederacy was formed in 1861, this man was chosen as the President of the Confederacy instead.

16. Who is Jefferson Davis?

17. This outstanding military leader resigned from the U. S
This outstanding military leader resigned from the U.S. Army to serve in the forces of his native Virginia.

18. Who is Robert E. Lee?

19. Although criticized by Congress for the high casualties in the Battle of Shiloh, Lincoln refused to replace this man by saying, “I can’t spare this man – he fights.”

20. Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

21. Describe a common Civil War soldier.

22. What is, between 18 and 30, farmers, most were US born?

23. The slave states that remained in the Union when the war broke out were known as this, because they were located next to states in which slavery was illegal.

24. What are border states?

25. This state was formed as a result of the people’s desire to stay in the Union.

26. What is West Virginia?

27. What these states had in common: Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas.

28. What is they joined the Confederacy after the attack on Fort Sumter?

29. What these states had in common: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.

30. What is, they were all slave states that stayed in the Union
What is, they were all slave states that stayed in the Union? Or What is, they were the “border states”?

31. If this state left the Union it would have caused Washington D. C
If this state left the Union it would have caused Washington D.C. to be separated from the rest of the Union.

32. What is Maryland?

33. More people died of this during the Civil War than died in battle?

34. What is disease?

35. The Monitor and the Merrimack were two of these.

36. What are iron clads?

37. A gun with a grooved barrel that causes the bullet to spin through the air.

38. What is a rifle?

39. This was the result of the improvements in military technology during the Civil War?

40. What is higher casualties?

41. How most Americans felt about the Civil War before the fighting began.

42. Excited. They thought it would be short and were sure they would win.

43. This side’s strategy included maintaining a defensive posture.

44. Who is the South?

45. This side’s plan included a naval blockade.

46. Who is the North?

47. The South hoped withholding cotton from the world market would do this.

48. What is gain them support from Europe, especially France and Britain?

49. The military strategy developed by U. S
The military strategy developed by U.S. Army general Winfield Scott to smother the South’s economy became known as this.

50. What is the Anaconda Plan?

51. The North finally succeeded in this part of their strategy when they captured New Orleans.

52. What is gaining control of the Mississippi River
What is gaining control of the Mississippi River? or What is splitting the Confederacy in two?