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17 Cards in this Set
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Crittenden Compromise
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Senator John C. Crittenden proposed this in December 1860 to preserve the Union
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Robert E. Lee
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Ablest of southern military leaders
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Joseph E. Johnston
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Led some 35,000 Confederates to me the Union troops near Manassas Junction, a railroad crossing about 30 miles outside Washington
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First Battle of Bull Run
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The confederates dug in on high ground behind a creek called Bull Run and northerners would call the fighting that followed the First Battle of Bull Run
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Stopped the Union assault. His troops raced toward the Union line, filling the air with a terrifying scream: "Woh-who-ey! Who-ey!" and scared the Union
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The Anaconda Plan
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It was designed to slowly squeeze the life out of the South like an anaconda snake
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Provided 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 money soldiers` as bullets
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Clara Barton
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Cared for the wounded on the battlefield
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Conscription
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Draft
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Sally Louisa Tompkins
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Among the confederate who founded small hospitals and clinics
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Copperheads
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A type of poisonous snake
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Habeas Corpus
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A protection against unlawful imprisonment
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Ulysses S Grant
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Won a reputation as a military leader
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Battle of Shiloh
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On April 6, 1862 thousands of Confederate troops surprised Grant's soldiers
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David Farragut
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In late 1862, he commanded Union ships that attacked the two forts guarding the approach to New Orleans from the Gulf of Mexico.
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