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35 Cards in this Set
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Robert Anderson
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Led Union troops that occupied Fort Sumter
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Beuregard
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Louisianan that led Confederates in bombing Fort Sumter
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Scott's Plan
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North would establish a naval blockade of the coast to deny imports and exports, North would seize the Mississippi River cutting the Confederacy in two
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Richmond, VA
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Rebel Capitol
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Battle of Bullrun
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1st battle. 30 mile from D.C. Confederate forces brought by train, push the Union back.
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King Cotton Diplomacy
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The South wouldnt send England cotton until they sent guns. However, England had cotton stocked up already
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C.S.S Virginia
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The 1st Ironclad, destroyed naval war ships
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Monitor
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Built by the Union to fight ironclad. Neither ship can defeat the other
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Simon Bolivar Buchanan
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Forced to surrender to U.S. Grant in Nashville
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Forts in Nashville
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Henry and Donalson
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Albert Johnston
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Surprises Grant at Shiloh. After his death in battle the rebels forces fall apart and are forced to retreat
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.58 caliber minie bullet
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Created in France. Shot straight and bounced around inside peoples bodies
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Confederate Conscription Act
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Made by South to, dealt with rules for enlistment
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Antietam
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Many casualties on both sides. Lee's attack on the north failed. Lincoln then issues the Emancipation Proclamation
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General Hooker
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Sent to fight Lee. Wants his army to attack from two sides. Lee divides army in two. Jackson leads one
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Chancellorsvile
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Lee wins here and wants to try going into the north again
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Gettysburg
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Fought on Little Round Top and Big Round Top. The Union lose after Pickett's Charge through the middle
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Vicksburg
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Grant takes Vicksburg which is the last Port on the MS River
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Petersburg
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Begins trench warfare
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William T. Sherman
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Takes over command in the West. Takes over ATL
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Appomattox
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Where Lee is surrounded and surrenders
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Mclelland
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1st general of the Pottomac. If he had won election over Lincoln during the war, the South would've been able to keep their slaves
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Maclean
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War started in his front yard and ended in his living room
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John Wilkes Booth
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Assassinates Lincoln
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Lewis Payne
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From Live Oak, FL, sent to assassinate VP Andrew Johnson
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Andrew Johnson
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Becomes President and caused the south to remain backwards for 100 years
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Constitutional Union Party
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No platform, made by the Border States
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Fort Pickens
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Port in Pensacola controlled by Union soldiers like Fort Sumter
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American Colonization Society
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Founded Liberia. Wanted to send African Americans back to Africa
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American Anti- Slavery Society
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Abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Immediate emancipation of slaves, Wrote the Liberator
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Sarah Grimke
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South Carolinian who was abolitionist and feminist after seeing how much better off her brother was
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Liberty Party
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Broke away from Lloyd Garrison's Party. Viewed Constitution as an anti-slavery document, vowed to work within politics to fix things
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Free Soil Party
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Built from Wilmot Proviso
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Impending Crisis of Slavery
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Written by Nort Carolinian named Hinton Helper. Said south needed to do away with slavery
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