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AH Vocab March 24-April 3, 2025

Quiz by Billye Paulson

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  • Q1
    A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War
    Confederacy
    30s
  • Q2
    Rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
    states rights
    30s
  • Q3
    Wooden ships with metal armor that were employed by both sides during the Civil War.
    ironclads
    30s
  • Q4
    New bullet created before the Civil War, led to a high number of casualties during the war.
    minie ball
    30s
  • Q5
    16th 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 Lincoln
    30s
  • Q6
    An American statesman and politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America (1861 to 1865).
    Jefferson Davis
    30s
  • Q7
    A form of fighting in which opposing armies battle each other from ditches dug in the battlefield.
    trench warfare
    30s
  • Q8
    Failed confederate attack during the Civil War led by general George Pickett at the Battle of Gettysburg.
    Pickett's Charge
    30s
  • Q9
    General William Tecumseh Sherman's march to Savannah, Georgia, which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea.
    March to the Sea
    30s
  • Q10
    July 1-3, 1863, turning point in war, Union victory, most deadly battle.
    Gettysburg
    30s
  • Q11
    The 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.
    Andersonville
    30s
  • Q12
    First ironclad warship commissioned by the United States Navy.
    USS Monitor
    30s
  • Q13
    Sherman's Special Field Order; slogan promising blacks (freedman) forty acres of land & a mule to plow with.
    "Forty acres and a mule"
    30s
  • Q14
    An American stage actor who, as part of a conspiracy plot, assassinated Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.
    John Wilkes Booth
    30s
  • Q15
    not strict; generous.
    lenient
    30s

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