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81 Cards in this Set
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"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery"
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Lincoln
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"no purpose directly or indirectly to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists"
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Lincoln
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What was the cry that was raised by Northern newspapers?
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"On to Richmond"
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The first battle of civil war?
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Battle at Bull Run
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Who saved the battle for the confeds?
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Stonewall jackson
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Another names for Potomac army?
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Zouaves
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Nugget, what occurred at Bull Run?
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"military picnic"
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Nuggets for McClellan
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"Tardy George"
"Young Napoleon" "Little Mac" |
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Lincoln accused him of having the
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"slows"
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Northern intelligence agency
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Pinkerton's Detective Agency
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McClellan headed the ...
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Army of the Potomac
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His first campaign was
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The Peninsula Campaign
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How many soldiers did each side lose?
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Lee 20,000
McClellan 10,000 |
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After which battle did Lincoln proclaim "cannot experiment for ten years trying to destroy the government and if they fail still come back into the Union unhurt"
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After Peninsula Campaign
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Hancock named
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The Superb
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Six point strategy of Union was?
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TOTAL WAR
-block southern coast -liberate slaves -seize Mississippi river, cut south in half -send troops through Georgia and Carolinas to split confed up -capture Richmond -Grants idea to engage enemy everywhere |
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Where was the leading rendezvous in west indies?
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Nassau
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What were profits for gamblers who passed the blockade?
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700%
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Lincoln proclaimed ______ to stop ships from traveling one place to only end up in the South
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"ultimate destination"
"continuous voyage" |
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Wood US warship that threatened blockade>
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Merrimack renamed Virginia
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Tiny union ship ______ fought the Merrimack
"Yankee cheesebox on a raft" |
Monitor
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Critical battle at which Lee hoped to encourage foreign intervention?
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Antietam Creek
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Lincoln restored who to command?
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"Little Mac" McClellan
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What did a union solider find that helped them win the battle?
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copy of Lee's battle plans with three cigars
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Antietam was long awaited "victory" Lincoln need to launch ..... date?
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Emancipation Proclamation
Sept 23, 1862 |
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Abolitionists were calling Lincoln a
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"first rate second rate man"
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Two nuggets for proclamation?
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"forever free"
"an act of justice" |
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How many slaves ran away to Northern camps?
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1 in 7
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Legal amendment that backed up proc?
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13
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What regions did this especially anger?
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"Butternut" regions of old northwest and border states
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This turned the war in to ______
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"abolition war"
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What increased dramatically due to proc?
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desertions
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All black regiments led by?
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Robert Shaw
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First war organization that allowed blacks?
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Navy
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How many blacks in north army by end?
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180000
10% |
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"works doubly, weakening the enemy and strengthening us"
refers to what? |
blacks soldiers
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who were "the stomach of the confederacy" "intelligent contraband"?
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blacks
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What word developed from General Burnside?
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sideburns
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Burnside launched a rash attack at "Burnside's Slaughter Pen"
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Fredericksburg
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Nuggets for Joseph Hooker
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"Fighting Joe"
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Lee's most brilliant victory? Also Hooker's loss....
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Chancellorsville
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But what happen at the battle?
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Jackson died shot by own man
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"high tide of the Confederacy" ?
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picketts charge
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Impressive victory at _____ for general Meade
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Ghettysburg
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What had Jefferson Davis hoped about the battle?
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his negotiators would arrive in Washington right after a confed victory
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Lincoln gave a 2 min speech at
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the Gettysburg address
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Grants first sign of success?
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Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
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At this, when the confeds asked for surrender terms, Grant said?
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"an unconditional and immediate surrender"
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As Grant was attempting to take Corinth, he was attacked by confeds at?
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Shiloh
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Nugget for Grant
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"unconditional surrender" Grant
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Grant's best fought battle?
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Vicksburg
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Back to Back political successes that turned the war?
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Gettysburg/Vicksburg
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General who led a conquest into Georgia/ SC/ NC. Nugget?
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General Sherman
"Sherman the Brute" |
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Nugget for soldiers of Sherman
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"Blue Bellies"
"Sherman's Sentinels" |
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What were "iron doughnuts" and "Sherman's Hairpins"?
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torn up railroad rails
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The entire campaign was named
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"Sherman's March"
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"hellhole of secession" was?
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SC
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Organized by radical republicans who resented the expansion of presidential power in wartime.
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Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War
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Most dangerous to Union cause?
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Northern Democrats
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"War Democrats" felt_____
"Peace Democrats" felt ___ and were also called |
liked Lincoln
disliked Lincoln... Copperheads |
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Leader of copperheads?
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Vallandigham
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Hale wrote the book _____ that was inspired by the strange case of Vallandigham.
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The Man Without a Country
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In the Election of 1864, the Republicans joined with the _____ to form the _____.
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War Democrats
Union Party |
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Who voted for / against Lincoln?
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Repub and War demos FOR
Peace demo and copperhead AGAINST |
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Who faced off against Lincoln within the Union party?
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Treasury Sec Chase
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Democrats nominated
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McClellan
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Lincoln popular slogan was?
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"Don't swap horses in the middle of the river"
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Who said "Damn the torpedoes! Go ahead!"
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Farragut
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Which states did Lincoln lose?
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Kentucky Delaware and New Jersey
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Whose personal motto was "When in doubt, fight"
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Grant
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During the _______ Grant was called "Grant the butcher"
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Wilderness Campaign
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Norther troops captured Richmond and cornered Lee at
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Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia
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Southern veterans known as
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"Lee's Ragamuffins"
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When finding out of the surrender, Lincoln said
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"Thank God I have lived to see this"
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Who shot Lincoln?
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John Wilkes
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Who said "Now he belongs to the ages"
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Stanton
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Nationalism shown in the development of what four nations?
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Germany
Italy Japan Canada/Britain |
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Where was Lincoln murdered? This place set the stage for Reconstruction
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Ford's Theater
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How many died in war?
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600,000
2% of pop |
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Costs of war?
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15 B
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English bill passed two years after civil war?
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Reform Bill of 1867
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