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29 Cards in this Set
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Crittenden compromise
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John Crittenden's plan to resolve conflict between North and South by extending the Missouri Compromise line westward through the remaining territories; rejected by President Lincoln
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Robert E. Lee
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His Father was a revolutionary war hero; he excelled as a student at the U.S. Military academy at West Point
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Joseph E. Johnston
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Led; the confederates dug in oh hManassasigh ground behind a creek called bull run.
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Battle of; first major battle of the civil war, resulting in a Confederal victory.
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Confederate General; his men stopped the union assault
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Anaconda Plan
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Union plan during the Cilil War for a naval blockade; compared to an Anaconda snake
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Mary Boykin chestnut
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Southerner supported the war effort with a series of patriotic events
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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The first woman to become a professional licensed doctor in the United states; helped run the u.s Sanitary Commision
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U.S. Sanitary Commission
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Agency headed in part by Dr. Elizabeth Black well; battle disease and infection among Union soldiers during Civil war
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Clara Barton
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She cared for the wounded on the battlefield.
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Sally Louisa Tompkins
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Women in the South also provided medical aid to soldiers
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Conscription
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Compulsory draft into military service
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Copperheads
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Northern Democrats who sympathized with the South in the Civil War
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Ulysses D. Grant
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Led the Union forces and achieved greatly
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Battle of Shiloh
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Civil War battle; resulted in greater Union control over the Mississippi River valley
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David Farragut
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Commanded Union ships; attacked two forts guarding the approach to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico
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George B.McClellan
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He trained him men well
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James E. B. " Jeb" Stuart
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Lee sent him to gather information on enemy positions
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Battle of Antietam
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Union victory in Maryland during the Civil War that marked the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. military history
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54th massachusetts Infantry
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African American Union regiment that helped capture Fort Wagner in South Carolina during the Civil War
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Ambrose E. Burnside
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Lincoln chose him to replace General McClellan
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George Meade
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Lincoln replaced Hooker with him...
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Union victory at Gettysburg Pennsylvania, during the Civil War that turned the tide against the Confederates; more than 40,000 soldiers died or were wounded
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Pickett's Charge
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Failed confederate attack during the Battle of Gettysburg
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Gettysburg Address
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Speech given by President abraham Lincoln to dedicate a cemetery at the Gettysburg battlefield; classic statement of democratic ideals
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Siege of Vicksburg
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Union army's blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi that led the city to surrender during the Civil War
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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 matched General Grant's determination
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Total War
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Type of war in which an army destroys its opponent's ability to fight by attacking civilian and economic, as well as as military, targets
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