America, The Story of Us Civil War Movie Key PDF

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It's for history, this thing was so annoying to do....

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America: The Story of Us – Civil War Episode Name: _____________________________________________________________

Period: ______

Answer the following questions while watching the episode. 1. What was the name of the new ammunition used by both the north and the south? minie ball 2. The Civil War was one of the first modern wars. But the army still used __traditional_______________________ military tactics. 3. The troops still face each other __in open fields_____________________________. 4. They can reload the musket ________8_____________ times faster than a traditional weapon. 5. August ___1862_________ General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army is launching an assault in Manassas, Virginia. 6. The prosperity of the south was based on one crop, ________cotton______________________. Also called ___white_______________ ________gold_____________. 7. Lee’s forces are heavily _____outnumbered_________________________ by the Union forces. 8. Moving the Union army by road would take ___2____ months, but by railroad, it took __7_____ days to move the Union troops. 9. Lincoln strikes a deal with the railroad owners to put the north railroad under _government________________ control. 10. In Lincoln’s hands the ____24,000____________ miles of railroads become an arm of his war machine. The south has ____9,000____________ miles of track. 11. Production of clothing in the North ____doubles_______________ during the course of the war. 12. For the first time in history, ____industry______________________ is put behind the war effort. 13. A simple device that will transform how this war is won is the ___telegraph_______________________. It makes communication instantaneous. 14. All telegraph lines are controlled by the __military__________________ by order of Lincoln. 15. In the course of the war, Lincoln sends almost _1,000___________ telegrams from this small office. 16. Industry, lines of communication, _supplies_________________________, man power, and fire power are delivered blow by blow. 17. At Antietam, ____6,000___________________ are killed. ___17,000________________ are wounded, over __4____ times as many as WWII D-Day. 18. _______________ as many soldiers die from infection of wounds and disease than on the battlefield. 19. Nurse, __Clara________ ____Barton____________, proposes many solutions to help with infections, such as clean bandages, putting the most gravely wounded at the front of the line, and first aid. She founds the American _Red_______ _Cross________. 20. War photography changes how the public views war, never again will politicians be able to fight wars without _public_____________ ___support__________________. 21. On January 1, 1863, Lincoln issues a proclamation ___freeing/abolishing slavery__________________________ slaves in the South. 22. Almost __200.000___________________ black Americans joined the Union army after this proclamation. 23. The _Emancipation__________________________ _Proclamation__________________________ changes the dynamics of the war.

24. Gettysburg became the site of the first _national_________________ _cemetry_______________ and the delivery of one of the most famous speeches given by Lincoln, the __Gettysburg_______________________ __Address____________________. 25. The man who will lead the charge from Chattanooga, TN to Atlanta, GA was _William Sherman___________________________________. 26. Sherman’s tactics of __total_______________ __war_____________ have won out. With Atlanta in ruins, he begins his _march_____________ to______ _the___ _sea______________....