VOCABULARY (define)
1. Emancipation Proclamation
7. Billy Yank/Blue Belly
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___
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.