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31 Cards in this Set
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Crittenden Compromise
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In December 1860 John Crittended proposed this
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Robert E. Lee
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Was born into a prominent Virginia family
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Joseph E. Johnston
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Was a general
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First Battle of Bull Run
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Southerners. Called it the battle of manassas
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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Was a confederate general
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Anaconda Plan
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It was designed to slowly squeeze the life out of the south like and anaconda snake
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Mary Boykin Chesnut
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Provides a glimpse of life on the home front during the war
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Elizabeth Blackwell
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The first woman to become a professionally licensed doctor in the United States
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US Sanitary Commission
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Elizabeth Blackwell helped helped run this
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Clara Barton
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Cared for the wounded on the battlefield
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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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Or draft acted in the United States history
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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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Achieved great success and was a general
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Battle of Shiloh
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Confederate troops surprised Grants troops
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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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Was a general of Virginia in the spring of 1862
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James E. B. Stuart
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Was a 29 year old commanded by Robert lee
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Would apply only to the confederate states
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Battle of Antietan
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Became the bloodiest single day battle in all of the IS military history
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54th Massachutes Infantry
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Many of the first African American soldiers recruited by the union served in this
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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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Lincoln chose him to replace General McClellan
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George Meade
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Lincoln replaced Hooker with this general
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Battle of Gettysburg
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The confederates pushed the union line back to cemetery hill and cemetery ridge
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Picketts Charge
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Less than a,f the confederate soldiers reached this
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Gettysburg Address
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Remains a classic statement of democratic ideals
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Siege of Vicksburg
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Te city's defenders began eating mules and rats to keep from starving
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War of attrition
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That is to continue fighting until the south ran out if men
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Matçhed general grants determination
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War of attrition
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To continue fighting until the south ran out of men
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