Civil War Review

Drafting of citizens into military service.

Military tactician, leading troops at Manassas, Antietam and Fredericksburg.

1862 law that allowed african american soldiers to serve in the union military

Copperhead

A unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups

Battle of Pittsburg Landing was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War

Homestead Act

1862 Civil war battle in which 23,000 troops were killed or wounded in one day.

organized Army of the Potomac in 1861 and briefly served as general-in-chief of the Union Army

Supplies captured from an enemy during wartime.

A military tactic in which a navy prevents vessels from entering or leaving it's enemy's ports.

A general of the nineteenth century; the commander of Confederate troops during the Civil War.

Declaration by the British king ordering  colonist to remain east of the Appalachian mountains.

commander in chief, Union army, Civil War, leading the North to victory over the Confederacy.

fought in Gettysburg Pennsylvania by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War

Gettysburg Address

True or False: Inflation is the rising of prices 

Bond

Siege

Total War

William Tecumseh

A tax that must be paid by individuals and corporations based on money earned.

Habeas Corpus

A strategy to starve the south by blockading seaports and controlling the Mississippi River.

Vicksburg 

States allowed slavery but stayed in the union: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Mississippi.

George Pickett

Clara Barton

extensive service in the Union Army during the American Civil War.