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30 Cards in this Set
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Crittenden Compromise
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Plan that called for the old Missouri Compromise line to be drawn west through the remaining territories.
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Robert E.Lee
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One of the ablest military leaders in the civil war.
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Joseph E. Johnston
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Led confederate troops to dig in on high grounds behind a creek called Bull Run, which led to a battle.
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Battle where the Union retreated, Stonewall Jackson is introduced.
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Confederate general.
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Anaconda Plan
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Naval blockade designed to squeeze the life out of the south like an anaconda snake.
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Whose diary provides a glimpse of life on the home front during the war.
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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The first women to become a professionally licensed doctor in the United States.
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U.S. Sanitary Commission
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Battled the diseases and infections that killed twice as many soldiers as bullets alone.
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Clara Barton
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Union nurse who cared for the wounded on the battlefield. She founded the American Red Cross.
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Sally Louisa Tompkins
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Was among the confederate women who founded small hospitals and clinics.
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Conscription
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Draft.
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Copperheads
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A type of poisonous snake.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Union general who achieved great success.
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Battle of Shiloh
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At the end of this battle, confederate forces had pushed Grant's men back to the TN river.
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David Farragut
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Attacked the two forts guarding the approach to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico.
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George B. McClellan
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General who was ordered to return to Virginia in the spring of 1862.
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James E.B. "Jeb" Stuart
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Led a calvary unit to gather information on enemy positions.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Claimed that all slaves living in areas still rebelling against the U.S. would be free.
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Battle of Antietam
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Raged all day, becoming the bloodiest single-day battle in all of U.S. military history.
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54th Massachusetts Infantry
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Many of the first African-American soldiers recruited by the union served in this. It earned an honored place in U.S. military history,
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Martin Delany
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Became the first African-American promoted to the rank of major.
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Ambrose E. Burnside
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President lincoln chose this man to replace General McClellan.
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George Meade
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Lincoln replaced General Hooker with this man.
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Battle of Gettysburg
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On the first day of this battle, the confederates pushed the Union line back to Cemetery Hill and Cemetery Ridge.
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Gettysburg Address
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A speech given by Abraham Lincoln that remains a classic statement of democratic ideals.
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Siege of Vicksburg
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Men began to eat mules and rats to keep from starving.
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War of Attrition
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To continue fighting until the south ran out of men, supplies, and the will to fight.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Union general who was made a commander of the Tennessee army because of his able performance at Vicksburg.
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Pickett's Charge
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15,000 men were commanded by George Pickett to rush the union center on Cemetery Ridge.
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