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.