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31 Cards in this Set
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blockade
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when Union ships prevented merchant vessels from entering or leaving the South's few good ports
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Robert E. Lee
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a fine Virginia leader who lead the Confederate army
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Anaconda Plan
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a plan in which Union control of the Mississippi River wouldsplit the Confederacy in two, fatally weakening it
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border states
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Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, and Maryland
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Stonewall Jackson
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General Thomas J. Jackson of the Confederate army
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George B. McClellan
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General of the Union Army who replaced McDowell
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Ulysses S. Grant
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General of the Union Army who later becomes president
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Shiloh
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horrified both the North and South and damaged Grant's rising reputation
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contraband
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captured war supplies
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Antietam
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battle which took a lot of lives away and which the Union won
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Emancipation Proclamation
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freed all enslaved people in states still in rebellion after January 1, 1863
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54th Massachusetts Regiment
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an all-black Union regiment of the Civil War
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Militia Act
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mandates that black soldiers be accepted into the military
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income tax
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a tax based on an individual's earnings
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bonds
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the biggest source of wartime funds came from the sale of this
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Homestead Act
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made western land available at very low cost to those who would farm it
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Copperheads
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a faction which opposed Lincoln's conduct of the war and demanded an end to the fighting
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habeas corpus
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protects a person from being held in jail without being charged with a specific crime
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inflation
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a decrease of value in money
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Clara Barton
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secured permission to travel with Union army ambulances and assist in "distributing comfots for the sick and wounded of both sides"
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siege
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a military tactic in which an army surrounds, bombards, and cuts of all supplies to any enemy position in order to force its surrender
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Vicksburg
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a place where there was Union victory
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Gettysburg
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a place in Pennsylvania where there was a Union victory
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George Pickett
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a Confederate general in the Battle of Gettsyburg
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Gettysburg Address
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a speech delivered by Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg
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total war
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a strategy which involves stricking civilian as well as military targets
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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a Union general who used the total-war strategy
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Thirteenth Amendment
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outlawed slavery in the United States
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John Wilkes Booth
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Southern murderer of Abraham Lincoln
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Mathew Brady
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a journalist whose exhibition "the Dead at Antietam" provided graphic evidence of the terrible realities of war
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Land Grant College Act
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gave money from the sale of public lands to states for hte extablishment of universities that taught "agriculture and mechanical arts"
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