Homework
5/20 - Copy vocabulary words in NB
1. Civil War - also called War
Between the States, four-year war (1861–65) between the United States and
11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate
States of America.
2. Anaconda Plan - was General
Winfield Scott's strategic plan to blockade and cut off the Confederacy from
the outside world forcing them to surrender.
3. blockade - block, obstruct.(
the Union blockade of Southern ports during the Civil War)
4. Emancipation Proclamation –
President Abraham Lincoln - issued on January 1, 1863, this Presidential
Proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the
rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
5. Gettysburg Address - A
speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War. Lincoln was speaking
at the dedication of a soldiers' cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
6. total war - is a
military conflict in which nations mobilize all available resources in order to
destroy another nation's ability
7. Robert E. Lee - (January 19,
1807 – October 12, 1870) was an American soldier best known for commanding
the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in
the American Civil War from 1862 until his
surrender in 1865.
8. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson -
was a leading Confederate general during the U.S. Civil War, commanding forces
at Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
9. Fort Sumter - The Battle of
Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort
Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
10. Antietam - also called
Battle of Sharpsburg, (September 17, 1862), a decisive engagement in the
American Civil War (1861–65) that halted the Confederate advance on Maryland
for the purpose of gaining military supplies.
