Civil War

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  1. 2. Lee Who was commander of the Confederate armies?
  2. 4. The Gettysburg Address “(blank) America.”
  3. 6. The Emancipation Proclamation couldn’t (blank) slaves immediately.
  4. 9. What is it called when a soldier leaves the army without permission?
  5. 11. The North’s economy was…
  6. 15. They claimed the Emancipation Proclamation only antagonized the South more.
  7. 18. Both armies fought at this creek on September 17th.
  8. 20. Women would work as these during the war to get extra money.
  9. 21. Southern prisons were so terrible also because the North refused to (blank) prisoners with the South.
  10. 25. Place of terrible African-American massacre in Tennessee.
  11. 26. Who shot Lincoln?
  12. 30. Grant In February 1862 a Union army invaded western Tennessee. Its leader was…
  13. 32. The first major bloodshed occurred on July 21st at the battle…
  14. 33. Lincoln was killed on…
  15. 34. (Blank) was shot in the left arm on May 2nd, but died of pneumonia on May 10th.
  16. 36. Sally Tompkins performed so heroically in her hospital duties that she was commissioned as a…
  17. 37. Lincoln gave the authority to soldiers to (blank) slaves.
  18. 39. Lincoln believed the government didn’t have the power to (blank) slavery.
  19. 41. The two diplomats the Confederacy sent to England and France to try and gain their support.
  20. 42. In the 1864 presidential election, Lincoln had lots of…
  21. 43. January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued… Emancipation Proclamation
  22. 46. Soon after Fort Sumter fell, the federal government set up the… (4 words)
  23. 53. How old was Lincoln's assassin? (spell)
  24. 57. What was the South called?
  25. 58. In the Civil War, along came more deadly inventions then ironclad ships.
  26. 59. The Emancipation Proclamation allowed slaves to (blank) in the Union army.
  27. 61. What month did Gettysburg take place?
  28. 62. What did Northern newspapers dub this plan?
  29. 63. What was the North called?
  30. 65. The Confederacy passed a (blank) in 1862.
  31. 68. Grant appointed (blank) as commander of the military division of Mississippi.
  32. 69. Who was the commander of the Union armies?
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  1. 1. Unlike the South, the North could (blank) lost men.
  2. 3. Twelfth The victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
  3. 5. The Confederacy did consider (blanking) slaves in 1863 and 1864.
  4. 7. The South faced a (blank) shortage during the Civil War.
  5. 8. On September 2, 1864, Sherman’s troops occupied what city?
  6. 10. In 1863 Congress authorized the nation’s first…
  7. 12. The Gettysburg Address was in (blank) 1863.
  8. 13. What month were the first shots of the war fired?
  9. 14. The Northern prisons weren’t much better, and many Southern soldiers died of (blank) due to no heating in the barracks.
  10. 16. The battle of Gettysburg resulted in many (blank) for the South.
  11. 17. In late March of 1862, Grant gathered his troops near a small Tennessee church named (blank), which was close to the Mississippi border.
  12. 18. The South surrendered on (blank), 1865.
  13. 19. (Blank) balls soft lead bullet that was more destructive then earlier bullets.
  14. 22. The worst Confederate prison was in (blank), Georgia.
  15. 23. Between May 4 to June 18, 1864, Lee lost (blank) men.
  16. 24. (Blank) African-Americans died in the massacre in Tennessee.
  17. 27. Starting in (blank) 1864, Grant threw his troops into battle after battle.
  18. 28. How many part plan did the North have to win the war quickly?
  19. 29. The South had a lack of (blank) that led to terrible living conditions for soldiers.
  20. 31. The first shots were fired on Fort…?
  21. 32. (Blank) threatened war against the Union when they took the Confederate ship Trent.
  22. 34. Vicksburg fell on… (Month and Day)
  23. 35. President of the Confederacy.
  24. 38. The surrender terms were…
  25. 40. They could never again gain (blank) troops to invade a Northern state again (that regiment at least.)
  26. 44. Lincoln was (blank) about his chances of being reelected.
  27. 45. In Chancellorsville, Virginia the (blank) defeated the (blank).
  28. 47. Nickname for Jackson.
  29. 48. The surrender terms took place in (blank) Court House, in a Virginia village.
  30. 49. What is a draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army?
  31. 50. As the war progressed, (blank) on the Confederacy’s home front deteriorated.
  32. 51. Between May 4 to June 18, 1864, Grant lost nearly (blank) men.
  33. 52. What was the Confederate flag called? (Blank and Blank)
  34. 54. Thanks to the federal government, the death rates…
  35. 55. No one planned on fighting in (blank), but it turned out to be one of the bloodiest battles.
  36. 56. Radical Republicans wanting a harsher proposal than Lincoln was offering, formed a 3rd party and nominated…
  37. 57. What was another name for Northern Democrats who wanted peace in the South?
  38. 60. Jackson was mistaken for a (blank) and shot.
  39. 64. In just (blank) days, Grant’s forces captured two Confederate forts that held strategic positions on important rivers.
  40. 66. Confederate soldiers were in Gettysburg because they had heard that there was (blank) there.
  41. 67. 1863 was going (blank) for the South at the beginning of the year.