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35 Cards in this Set
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Shell |
hollow cannonball that explodes in the air or as it hits |
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canister |
projectile use in a Canon that opens up after firing in sprays bullet-sized shots |
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war of attrition |
warfare in which a weaker army inflicts small but continuous losses of soldiers and material that gradually add up to an unbearable burden for the enemy |
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Anaconda Plan |
civil war plan formed by the north to blockade the south and cut off its foreign trade |
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gunboat |
type of steam driven boat used during the Civil War that was fitted with cannons and sometimes iron armor able to navigate shallow waters |
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draft |
legal means of forcing people to serve in the Armed Forces |
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writ of habeas corpus |
court order requiring proof that a prisoner is being justly held |
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Internal Revenue Act of 1862 |
law that created the Internal Revenue Service to manage collection of taxes |
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greenback |
paper money established during the Civil War |
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Pacific Railroad act of 1862 |
legislation that allowed the federal government to offer public land and money to companies for construction of transcontinental railroad |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Declaration by Abraham Lincoln that as of January 1, 1863, all enslaved people in areas in rebellion against the union would be considered free by the North |
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contraband |
property of the enemy seized during wartime |
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Pickett's Charge |
confederate attack lead by General George Pickett at the battle of Gettysburg |
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siege |
prolonged attack in which a city is surrounded and starved into surrender |
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total war |
warfare in which opponents a attacks civilians and the economic system of the enemy in addition to its soldiers |
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Gettysburg address |
speech given by Abraham Lincoln that changed the meaning of the war from preserving the union to also freeing the slaves |
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13th amendment |
constitutional amendment of 1865 outlawing slavery in the United states |
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Stonewall Jackson |
confederate General known for his swift strikes against Union forces |
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George McClellan |
early Union Army leader in the Civil War |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
18th president of the union states 1869 to 1877 |
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Robert E. Lee |
brilliant general of the confederate forces during civil war |
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copperhead |
A Democrat during the Civil War who worked against the war and the anti-slavery policies of the Republicans |
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radical Republicans |
wing of the Republican Party of the 1860s made up of abolitionist and other hostile to the south |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
Union general in the Civil War known for his destructive march from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864 |
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George G. Meade |
Union commander at the battle of Gettysburg in 1863 |
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Philip Sheridan |
Union general in the Civil War who worked with Grant to cut off the retreat of the confederate forces after the fall of Richmond |
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John Wilkes Booth |
Southern actor who assassinated Lincoln in 1865 |
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Manassas |
July 1861when a Union Army tried to March to Richmond collided with a confederate army |
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shiloh |
Southern army unexpectedly struck Grant's forces near Shiloh church in Tennessee |
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Antietam |
Battle on September 17 where there was the most bloodshed in the war no clear victory |
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Vicksburg |
city in Mississippi that the Union struggled to capture |
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Gettysburg |
by the battle of Gettysburg that lasted for three days on July 1 |
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Atlanta |
besieged by union September 1864; set on fire |
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Savannah |
also set on fire by Sherman captured by December 22 |
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Appomattox Courthouse |
where the Civil War was ended on April 9, 1865 |
