Final Civil War Review
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the answer that best labels the description/explains the details given.
Basic Civil War Knowledge
- ______Another name for the South
- ______Another name for the North
- ______The President of the North
- ______The President of the South
- ______The capital of the North
- ______The capital of the South
- ______A nickname of the southern soldiers
- ______A nickname of the northern soldiers
- ______The one man put in charge of Southern armies
- ______The first state to leave the US
- ______The year the Civil War started
- ______The year the Civil War ended
- ______Who is “The Blue?”
- ______Who is “The Grey?”
- ______The name of the military academy that gave the South one of its biggest advantages
- ______One of the NORTH’s biggest advantages
Causes of the Civil War
- ______- The reason the SOUTH would tell you it is fighting in the Civil War (“The War of Northern Aggression”).
- ______- The reason the North would tell you it is fighting in the Civil War (“The War Between the States”).
- ______- Wrote the book that stirred up anti-slavery feelings in the north. The name of the book - ______
- ______- Unintentionally increased the demands of slavery with his invention of the cotton gin.
- ______- The political party that was created with the goal of keeping slavery out of the western territories.
- ______- The “radical abolitionist” who led an attack on pro-slavery forces in Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas and an attempted slave rebellion on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia.
- ______- The Supreme Court case that enraged the north because it declared slaves were property.
Vocabulary
- ______To leave or withdraw; remove
- ______Someone who is anti-slavery/wanted to end slavery in the US.
- ______The right for people to govern themselves
- ______The states who allied with the North, even though they were “southern” and had slavery.
- ______“To free” or “set free”
- ______An official announcement
- ______A person who dies for their beliefs
- ______The right to a fair/speedy trial/to be told what you are charged of before being put in jail (Lincoln took this right away during the war for the sake of “national security”).
- ______The name of the destruction tactic used to destroy everything and anything that could be used by the enemy to fight the war
- ______The theory that states “the federal government should have less power than the states.”
- ______The encircling and bombing of an enemy
- ______Vessels that were covered in armor
- ______The name of the plan the North used to cut off supplies to the South, and choke them into surrender
- ______The “poisonous” nickname for the northerners who wanted to end the war before it was won
- ______The random and mandatory selection of soldiers to fight in the war
- ______Foot soldiers
- ______Soldiers on horse-back
Battles and Leaders
- ______The first battle of the Civil War (essentially) with no casualties.
- ______Location of that first battle
- ______The Union major who was in charge of the Federal troops at that fort…
- ______The first MAJOR battle of the Civil War
- ______The Confederate hero of the first major battle of the Civil War…killed by friendly fire at the Battle of CHANCELLORSVILLE
- ______The winner of those first two battles
- ______The cautious and slow UNION general put in charge of the ARMY OF THE POTOMAC after the first major battle. The man who led the Union to the “hardly” victory at ANTIETAM.
- ______The name of the Union ironclad at Hampton Roads (what was the southern ironclad? ______)
- ______Passed the Emancipation Proclamation (right after the win at Antietam) that said if the Rebel States do NOT return to the Union by Jan. 1, 1863, then their slaves would be set free.
- ______The hairy Union leader who sent troops on 14 charges to the Confederate wall (Marie’s Heights) that later was illuminated by the northern lights.
- ______The bloodiest day of the Civil War (in Maryland…McClellan had the plans beforehand because of 3 cigars)
- ______The Union general who led troops to victory at SHILOH.
- ______The famous African-American regiment at the deadly battle of Fort Wagner
- ______The creator of the American Red Cross (helped nurse injured soldiers).
- ______The very last battle (a six-week siege) that led to the Union control of the Mississippi River
- ______The bloodiest battle of the Civil War (Union General George C. Meade was in charge of this three-day battle).
- ______The final (and failed) Confederate assault during this three-day battle
- ______The very famous and short speech that Lincoln wrote in dedication of the cemetery…”Four score and seven years ago…”
- ______The Union general who destroyed the Shenandoah Valley
- ______The Union general in charge of burning Atlanta, “Marching to the Sea” and destroying routes in Georgia
- ______The man who ran against Lincoln in the 1864 election and lost
- ______The location of the surrender that ended the Civil War
- ______The name of the southern actor who killed Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre