American Civil War: Key Figures and Battles

Chapter 15: The American Civil War

Key Figures and Battles

Match the following items with their descriptions:

1. Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri: These were the only slave states that remained in the Union.
2. Union naval blockade: This quickly choked off Southern commercial activity.
3. The First Battle of Bull Run: This was the first real battle of the Civil War.
4. Anaconda Plan: This refers to the initial three-pronged Union strategy that included, among other things, a blockade of the southern coast to strangle the South.
5. Britain: Much of the Confederacy’s diplomatic efforts were aimed at this nation.
6. Kansas-Missouri border: Fighting along this featured brutal guerilla warfare.
7. Battle of Antietam: This was the bloodiest single day of the Civil War.
8. Emancipation Proclamation: This changed the nature of the Civil War by transforming it from a war to restore the Union to a struggle over slavery. It was justified by Lincoln as a military necessity.
9. Nurses and health-related volunteers: 20,000 women who served during the war did so in these roles.
10. Copperheads: They were members of the extreme fringe of the peace wing of the Democratic party loyal to the Confederacy.
11. Battle of Chancellorsville: At this battle, Lee gave Hooker a lesson in the art of “elusive mobility.”
12. Appomattox Court House: Lee surrendered to Grant here.
13. 750,000: This was the approximate military death toll in the Civil War.
14. Slavery: This was eradicated by the Thirteenth Amendment.
15. Habeas Corpus: Lincoln had this surrendered in order to deal with disloyalty.
16. Food: This, in the Confederacy, was outrageously expensive.
17. Jefferson Davis: Was the president of the Confederacy. His greatest challenges came from other southern politicians because their insistence on states’ rights made it difficult for the Confederate government to exert its authority.
18. Vicksburg: This 47-day battle was not a Confederate victory.
19. Gettysburg: At this battle, the Confederate army was repulsed with terrible losses.
20. Grant: As Union commander, he was best characterized by his plan to relentlessly attack.
21. Petersburg: At this battle, Grant put the Confederates under siege.
22. Hood: His attack at Franklin led to his army’s slaughter.
23. Abraham Lincoln: He stressed repeatedly that the paramount object in this struggle was to save the Union.
24. Women: For many of these people, the Civil War loosened traditional restraints on their activity.
25. Civil War: During this, over 600,000 people died, one out of every twelve men served in the war, “rifled” guns contributed to the killing, and American losses were greater than in World War II. The argument that this began primarily as a southern fight to defend liberty and the right to self-government is unsatisfactory because it ignores the actual reason – slavery – southern leaders used in 1860-1861 to justify secession and war.
26. Thomas Stonewall Jackson: Was killed at Chancellorsville by his own men.
27. Andrew Johnson: He was Lincoln’s second vice president.
28. George B. McClellan: Was the 1864 Democratic presidential candidate.
29. Winfield Scott: Devised the Union’s Anaconda Plan.
30. William T. Sherman: Marched through Georgia living off the land while destroying plantations, crops, and railroad lines.
31. Alexander Stephens: Was the vice president of the Confederacy.
32. Thaddeus Stevens: Was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans.