Civil war term starting with z?

Answer 1

Alternate list:

*A is for Antietam (battle which led to the Emancipation Proclamation)

*B is for Border states (Kentucky, Missouri, West Virginia, Maryland)

*C is for Confederates

*D is for Draft Laws

*E is for Emancipation Proclamation (freed the slaves)

*F is for Freedmen (free slaves)

*G is for Gettysburg (inspired the Gettysburg Address and helped alter which side the war was favoring)

*H is for Habeas Corpus (law against unlawful imprisonment)

*I is for ironclads (ships covered with iron plating)

*J is for John Brown (terrorist and hero)

*K is for Ku Klux Klan (secret society that threatened African American voters post-war)

*L is for Lincoln

*M is for Mississippi

*N is for neutral (the border states stayed neutral for a while)

*O is for Ohio river (this along with the Mississippi was crucial to control)

*P is for Plans of Reconstruction (10% plan, Wade- Davis bill, ect...)

*Q is for eQual rights (the amendments help in accomplishing this)

*R is for Robert E. Lee (southern general)

*S is for segregation

*T is for technology (mini balls, telegraph, railroads)

*U is for Union

*V is for Vicksburg (battle that decided whether or not the north would gain control of the Mississippi)

*W is for Washington

*X is for AppomattoX (Lee surrenders to Grant here)

*Y is for Years (four years long)

*Z is for Zero (0 casualties at Fort Sumpter the first battle)

· Appomattox Court House (Lee surrenders to Grant); Alexander Stephens (Vice President of the Confederate States of America); Abolitionists

· Battle Hymn of the Republic (patriotic song written in 1862 by Julia Ward Howe); Braxton Bragg (Confederate General); Bull Run (Virginia), battle of

· Confederate States of America; Cadwallader Washburn (Union General); Chickamauga (Georgia), battle of

· Dranesville (Virginia), battle of; Dry Wood Creek (Missouri), battle of

· Edward M. Stanton (Union Secretary of War); Ezra Church (Georgia), battle of; Earl Van Dorn (Confederate General)

· Franklin (Tennessee), battle of; Felix Zollicoffer (Confederate General); Fort Sumter (South Carolina), battle of

· Gettysburg (Virginia), battle of; General George McClellan (Union General); Greenbrier (West Virginia), battle of

· Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's Vice President during the war); Hunley, H.L. (submarine of the Confederate States of America); Hatteras Inlet Batteries (North Carolina), battle of

· Ivy Mountain (Kentucky), battle of; Ironclad; Ivy Mountain (Kentucky), battle of

· Jefferson Davis (Confederate President); Jonesborough (Georgia), battle of; Johnson, Andrew (appointed by Lincoln to be the military governor of Tennessee during the war)

· Kearsarge, USS (Union warship); Kessler's Cross Lanes (West Virginia), battle of; Kane, Thomas (Union General)

· Leroy P. Walker (Confederate Secretary of War); Lynchburg (Virginia), battle of; Lexington (Tennessee), battle of

· Monitor (Union ironclad warship); Murfreesboro (Tennessee), battle of

· Nashville (Tennessee), battle of; New Hope Church (Georgia), battle of; New Market (Virginia), battle of

· Old Church (Virginia), battle of; Olustee (Florida), battle of; Oak Grove (Virginia), battle of

· Perryville (Kentucky), battle of; Philip Kearny (Union General); Philippi (West Virginia), battle of

· Quantrill, Confederate Captain William and his "Quantrill's Raiders" ; Quartermaster

· Robert E. Lee (Confederate General); Rich Mountain (Virginia), battle of ; Rosecrans, William S. (Union General)

· Shiloh (Tennessee), battle of; Stephen R. Mallory (Confederate Secretary of the Navy); Stuart, James Ewell Brown "Jeb" (Confederate General)

· Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (abolishment of slavery); Tupelo (Mississippi), battle of; Tecumseh, USS (Union ironclad warship)

· Ulysses S. Grant (Union General); Upperville (Virginia), battle of; Utoy Creek (Georgia), battle of

· Vicksburg (Mississippi), siege of; Virginia, CSS (Confederate ironclad warship); Van Dorn, Earl (Confederate General)

· Wilderness (Virginia), battle of the; When Johnny Comes Marching Home (civil war song written in 1863 by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore); William B. Taliaferro (Confederate General)

· Yellow Tavern (Virginia), battle of; Yorktown (Virginia), siege of

· Zook, Samuel (Union General); Zouave regiment; Zollicoffer, Felix (Confederate General)

Answer 2

Zouave.Union soldiers that wore foreign looking uniforms..

Answer 3

Zither

Answer 4

Zirconium!