Chapter 16 Vocabulary

Question 1

Fort Sumter

Answer 1

a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops beginning the Civil War

Question 2

border states

Answer 2

Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri; slave states that lay between the North and the South and did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War

Question 3

cotton diplomacy

Answer 3

Confederate efforts to use the importance of Southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry to persuade the British to support the Confederacy in the Civil War

Question 4

First Battle of Bull Run

Answer 4

the first major battle of the Civil War, resulting in a Confederacy victory; showed that the Civil War would not be easily won

Question 5

Seven Days’ Battles

Answer 5

a series of clashes that forced the Union army to retreat from near Richmond

Question 6

Second Battle of Bull Run

Answer 6

a Civil War battle in which the Confederate army forced most of the Union army out of Virginia

Question 7

Battle of Antietnam

Answer 7

a Union victory in which the Civil War that marked the bloddiest single-day battle in the U.S military history

Question 8

ironclad

Answer 8

a warship that is heavily armored with iron

Question 9

innovation

Answer 9

a new idea or way of doing something

Question 10

Battle of Shiloh

Answer 10

a Civil War battle in Tennessee in which the Union army gained greater control over the Mississippi River valley

Question 11

Seige of Vicksburg

Answer 11

the Union army’s six-week blockade of Vicksburg that led the city to surrender during the Civil War

Question 12

emancipation

Answer 12

freeing of the slaves

Question 13

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 13

an order issued by President Ahbraham Lincoln freeing the slaves in areas rebelling against the Union; to effect Janurary 1, 1863

Question 14

contrabands

Answer 14

an escaped slave who joined the Union army during the Civil War

Question 15

54th Massachusetts Infantry

Answer 15

African American Civil War regiment that captured Fort Wagner in South Carolina

Question 16

copperheads

Answer 16

a group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War

Question 17

Habeas Corpus

Answer 17

the constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment

Question 18

<p>

| Battle of Gettysburg</p>

Answer 18

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| a Union Civil War victory that turned the tide against the Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania</p>

Question 19

Pickett’s Charge

Answer 19

George Pickett & 15,000 other men of the Confederacy marched to the Cemetry Ridge to attack Union position

Question 20

Gettysburg Address

Answer 20

a speech given by Abraham Lincoln in which he praised the bravery of Union soliers and renewed his commitments winning the Civil War

Question 21

Wilderness Campaign

Answer 21

a series of battles between Union and Confederacy forces in northern and central Virginia that delayed the Union capture of Richmond

Question 22

execute

Answer 22

to perform, carry out

Question 23

total war

Answer 23

a type of war in which an army destroys its opponents ability to fight by targeting civilian and economic as well as military resources

Question 24

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 24

the location where General E. Lee forced to surrender thus ending the Civil War