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CH 16 MR
Question | Answer |
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A federal fort located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Southern attack on Fort Sumter marked the beginning of the Civil War. | Fort Sumter |
This man resigned from the United States Army and joined the Confederacy because he could not abandom his birthplace. | Robert E. Lee |
A slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illegal. | Border States |
Cotton was called king because cotton was important to the world market, and the South grew most of the cotton for Europe’s mills. | King Cotton |
A strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War. | Anaconda Plan |
When armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area. | Blockade |
An 1861 battle of the Civil War in which the South shocked the North with a victory. | First Battle of Bull Run |
Conditions and practices that promote health. | Hygiene |
A gun with a grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin through the air. | Rifle |
A bullet with a hollow base. | Minié ball |
A warship covered with iron. | Ironclads |
That victorious Union general in the West was him. His plan was to strike hard and fast, then keep moving. | Ulysses S. Grant |
an 1862 battle in which the Union forced the Confederacy to retreat in some of the fiercest fighting in the Civil War. | Battle of Shiloh |
Soldiers on horseback | Calvery |
An 1862 Civil War battle in which the Confederacy forced the Union to retreat before it could capture the Southern capital of Richmond. | Seven Days' Battles |
This was the bloodiest day in all of American history. was the bloodiest day in all of American history. Lee was the one who withdrew. | Battle of Antietam |