
AH Vocab March 24-April 3, 2025
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- Q1A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil WarConfederacy30s
- Q2Rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.states rights30s
- Q3Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War.ironclads30s
- Q4New bullet created before the Civil War, led to a high number of casualties during the war.minie ball30s
- Q516th President of the United States who saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated (freed) the slaves; was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.Abraham Lincoln30s
- Q6An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America (1861 to 1865).Jefferson Davis30s
- Q7A form of fighting in which opposing armies battle each other from ditches dug in the battlefield.trench warfare30s
- Q8Failed confederate attack during the Civil War led by general George Pickett at the Battle of Gettysburg.Pickett's Charge30s
- Q9General William Tecumseh Sherman's march to Savannah, Georgia, which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea.March to the Sea30s
- Q10July 1-3, 1863, turning point in war, Union victory, most deadly battle.Gettysburg30s
- Q11The most infamous prison in the south. There was no shelter. There was a huge population, and there were food shortages, overcrowding, and disease that killed about 100 men a day during the summer months.Andersonville30s
- Q12First ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy.USS Monitor30s
- Q13Sherman's Special Field Order; slogan promising blacks (freedman) forty acres of land & a mule to plow with."Forty acres and a mule"30s
- Q14An American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.John Wilkes Booth30s
- Q15not strict; generous.lenient30s