Civil War Vocabulary Quiz

Union military strategy to win the war, proposed by Union General Winfield Scott. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate coast, a push down the Mississippi River, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.

• Rattlesnake Plan

• Anaconda Plan

• Viper Plan

• Scott's Plan

Virginia town that was the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.

• Chancellorsville

• Antietam

• Appomattox Court House

• Fredericksburg

1863 Lincoln declared the slaves in the Confederate states only were free. (Effectively did not free any slaves because the Confederates did not obey Lincoln. It gave slaves hope that they would be freed and it gave the Union army a cause to fight for).

• Suffrage Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Dawes Act

• Monroe Doctrine

President of the Confederate States of America

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Johnson

• "Stonewall" Jackson

• Jefferson Davis

Remembered as the great organizer of the Union Army of the Potomac. Nicknamed "Young Napoleon," "Little Mac" was immensely popular with the men who served under his command. His cautious military command style, however, put him at odds with President Abraham Lincoln, and would ultimately end his military and political career. In the spring of 1862, After the unsuccessful battle of Antietam, Maryland, he was removed as General-in-Chief, though he retained command of the Army of the Potomac.

• Irwin McDowell

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• Ulysses S. Grant

• George McClellan

In his inaugural speech Lincoln promised not to interfere with the institution of slavery in the places where it already existed. He took a firm stance against the secession of the South and the seizure of federal property. The government, insisted Lincoln, would “hold, occupy, and possess” its property and collect its taxes. “We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

• 1st Inaugural Address

• 2nd Inaugural Address

Born a slave, he was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1900 for his gallantry in saving the regimental flag during the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863. He was a member of the Massachusetts 54th regiment. He is the first African American to be awarded the Medal of Honor.

• Philip Bazaar

• William Carney

• Salvatore Guinta

• Melvin Morris

This Union general marched through the South from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia. The Union army destroyed everything in their path (Burning farms, destroying roads, bridges, railroad tracks, killing livestock).

• Sherman's March

• Bataan March

• Col. Hathi's March

• Total War March

Born in Chile, South America, he was a member of the United States Navy and was awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration of the United States for valor in combat. According to the citation he distinguished himself during the battle of Fort Fisher of the American Civil War.

• Philip Bazaar

• William Carney

• Salvatore Giunta

• Melvin Morris

A military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside. Ex. Vicksburg, Mississippi

• Surrender

• Secede

• Secession

• Siege