Unit 10 Civil War Vocabulary

Town near Virginia where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the Civil War

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Civil War

Civil War battle where the North succeeded in halting Confederate forces in Maryland. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War

• Confederate States of America

• Battle of Antietam

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Civil War

Turning point of the Civil War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died.

• Confederate States of America

• Cotton Diplomacy

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Civil War

Deadliest war in American history; conflict between north (Union) and South (Confederacy). Eleven southern slaves states wanted to secede from the Union.

• Confederate States of America

• Cotton Diplomacy

• Emancipation Procolamation

• Civil War

A republic formed in February 1861 and composed of the eleven Southern states that seceded from the United States

• Confederate States of America

• Cotton Diplomacy

• Emancipation Procolamation

• General Robert E. Lee

Confederate efforts to use the importance of southern cotton to Britain’s textile industry (fabrics) to persuade the British to support them in the Civil War

• Ironclad

• Cotton Diplomacy

• Emancipation Procolamation

• General Robert E. Lee

Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.

• Ironclad

• Total War

• Emancipation Proclamation

• General Robert E. Lee

Commander of the Confederate Army

• Ironclad

• Total War

• Ulysses S. Grant

• General Robert E. Lee

Warship covered with protective iron plates, helped the north to blockade southern ports from European trade

• Ironclad

• Total War

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Total War

A conflict in which the participating countries devote all of their resources to the war effort.

• Ironclad

• Union

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Total War