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30 Cards in this Set
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Charles Frances Adams
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- son of John Quincy Adam
- prime minster to france - threatned Britain with war if it wouldn't stop building ships for the confederates |
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Clement L. Vallandigham
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- Copper Head Democrat
-demanded end to war - imprisoned for treason |
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Andrew Johnson
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ran with Abraham Lincoln
- he and Lincoln balanced because he was a southern democrat and Lincoln was a northern republican |
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John Wilkes Booth
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Assasinated Lincoln in April 1865
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Trent Affair
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- British war ships
- Union stopped from carrying confederated officers to England - separation between north and south |
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Alabama
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- ship built by British for confederates
- caputred 60 vessels |
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fenians
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secret 19th century Irish and Irish American organization dedicated to overthrow British rule in Ireland
-attacked Candada |
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National Banking Act
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- purchased nond and money
- created during the war - first step toward unified bank since 1836 |
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Union Party
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-all Republicans the war Democrats
-excluded copper head and those against war -nominated Lincoln |
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Bull Run
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- Union Lost
-Confederates won |
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Army of the Potamac
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- Union army led by George B. McClellan
-never took risks or advanced |
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Peninsula Campaign
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-captured Yorktown and arrived in Yorktown
- Union campaign led my George B. McClellan |
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Jeb Stuart
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- Confederate Calvary
- chased out McClellan |
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Seven Day's Battles
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- Robert E. Lee destroyed McClellan
-1862 |
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Blockade -running
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- smuggling materials through blockade
- Unionion seized British ships |
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Second Battle of Bull Run
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-Robert E. Lee crushed John Pope
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Antietam
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- McClellan defeated Lee.
-1862 |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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- January 1, 1863
- freed slaves in the south but not in the north |
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Fort Pillow
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- blacks soldiers who surrendered were massacred
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A.E. Burnside
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- led union army
- lost at Fredericksburg |
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"Fighting Joe" Hooker
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- defeated by Lee at Chancellorsville
- shot by his own men |
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George G. Meade
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- southern general
- Beaten by unionists |
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Battle of Gettysburg
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- George Pickett defeated confederates
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Gettysburg Adress
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- famous speech by Lincoln
- given after victory at Gettysburg |
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" total war'
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William Sherman completely burned Atlanta and everything in his path
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Congressional Comittee on the Conduct of the War
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- created in 1861
-dominated by radical republicans - stirred trouble |
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War Democrats
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- supported Lincoln
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Peace Democrats
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- against Lincoln
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Copper Heads
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- completely against war
- called lincoln the Illinois Ape and his "nigger war" |
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Election of 1864
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Lincoln renominated
- Lincoln & Andrew Johnson vs McClellan |
