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.