Civil War Pictionary

Terms

1.  Pickett’s Charge

2.  Robert E. Lee

3.  Ulysses S. Grant

4.  Greenbacks

5.  Copperhead

6.  54th Massachusetts Regiment

7.  Abraham Lincoln

8.  Fort Sumter

9.  Anaconda Plan

10.  1st Battle of Bull Run

11.  Blockade

12.  Border state

13.  Ironclad

14.  Minie ball

15.  Rifle

16.  Cavalry

17.  Battle of Antietam

18.  Seven Day’s Battles

19.  Battle of New Orleans

20.  Conscription

21.  Andersonville

22.  Civil War

23.  King Cotton

24.  Fort Wagner

25.  Conditions in the army camps

26.  Lincoln firing McClellan

27.  Ambrose Burnside

28.  Clara Barton

29.  Gettysburg

30.  Siege

31.  Confederate States of America

32.  United States of America

33.  Fugitive Slave Act

34.  Uncle Tom’s Cabin

35.  “Bleeding Kansas”

36.  “Bleeding Sumner”

37.  Secede

38.  Appomattox Court House

39.  John Wilkes Booth

1)  What was the 1st land battle of the Civil War?

2)  Why did Robert E. Lee side with the Confederacy even though he did not fully agree with it?

3)  What were the border states and why were they vital?

4)  What was special about the 1st Battle of Bull Run?

5)  Why was the Union losing the early battles?

6)  Be able to explain the quote, “rich man’s war but a poor man’s fight.

7)  What were the New York Draft Riots about?

8)  Who was taking a huge economic beating during the war and why?

  1. How did slaves help hurt the south?

9)  What was the role of women during the war and how did they help the war effort?

10) What was Andersonville and what atrocities happened there?

11) Other than ECONOMICS AND MILITARY, what was happening within the Confederacy that was leading to its downfall?

12) What was the failing of each of Lincolns’ generals in between McClellan and Grant?

13) What was the failed Confederate attack in Gettysburg called?

  1. Who led the attack?
  2. What was the goal of the attack?
  3. What was the end result of the attack?
  4. Why did Confederates go to Gettysburg? (Make sure to know all the answers to this question.)

13) Who was Stonewall Jackson and what was Lee’s reaction to his death?

14) What is a siege and what famous one did Grant perform?

15) Who helped divide the South almost into 3 parts?

16) What is “total war”?

17) How did Sherman save Lincoln politically?

18) Where was the final meeting between Grant and Lee?

  1. What was the emotion of Grant of this meeting and why?
  2. What event showed us that Northern/Southern tension did not end after the war?

19) What were conditions like in the army camps?

20) Name two important ironclads.

21) Why did farmers join the war effort?

22) Lincolns’ views of McClellan and Grant.

23) What was Grants’ theory of war?

24) Why did the Battle of Shiloh almost cost Grant his job?

25) Why was the Battle of New Orleans huge to the Anaconda Plan?

26) Other than simply taking the enemy capital, why did Lee head to Washington D.C.?

27) Why did Lincoln fire McClellan even though he successfully defended the capital from Lee?

28) Why did Lincoln wait so long to do the Emancipation Proclamation?

  1. Who did he leave out and why?
  2. What were the reactions of the following people:
  3. People loyal to the Confederacy
  4. African-Americans
  5. Border State Residents
  6. Why did Lincoln use some of the terminology (words) that he did? (i.e. – Under God)

29) What was the role of African-Americans during the war?

  1. How did both sides view them?
  2. What was the punishment/treatment from both sides?
  3. How did the 54th change that?
  4. What famous attack did they lead?
  5. What was their legacy?

30) This party was dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery?

31) Under this idea, California would be admitted as a free state and the slave trade would be abolished in Washington D.C.

32) The government used ______to decide whether Nebraska and Kansas should be slave states.

33) This man led the attack on Harper’s Ferry.

34) This legal case established that African-Americans ARE property.

35) What legal argument did the North make against Southern secession?

36) This amendment outlawed slavery.

37) This was a proposed bill that outlawed slavery in any territory in the United States.

38) These were the vital states that separated the North and South.