History vocab Chapter 16

a federal fort located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the Southern attack on this federal fort marked the beginning of the Civil War

a Virginia resident, talented military leader, and commanding general of the Army of Northern Virginia

a slave state that bordered states in which slavery was illegal

cotton was called king because cotton was important to the world market, and the South grew most of the cotton for Europe's mills

a strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War

when armed forces prevent the transportation of goods or people into or out of an area

an 1861 battle of the Civil War in which the South shocked the North with a victory

conditions and practices that promote health

a gun with a grooved barrel that causes a bullet to spin through the air

a bullet with a hollow base

a warship covered with iron

a victorious Civil War general in the West who became commander of Union armies in 1864 and president in 1869

an 1862 battle in which the Union forced the Confederacy to retreat in some of the fiercest fighting in the Civil War

soldiers on horseback

an 1862 Civil War battle in which the Confederacy forced the Union to retreat before it could capture the Southern capital of Richmond

a Civil War battle in 1862 in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded