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33 Cards in this Set
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Jefferson Davis |
former US senator from Mississippi and secretary of war, named president of the Confederate, said the South was fighting for self governance |
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Alexander Stephens |
Georgia Congressman named vice president
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Fort Sumter |
South Carolina demanded that Buchanan surrender the fort and cut off its supplies
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Crittenden Compromise |
two part plan to compromise between Buchanan and the South, first part was passing an amendment that protected slavery from the federal government in states where it was already in place, the second part was to extend the Missouri Compromise line to the California border |
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General Irwin McDowell |
took 30,000 men to Manassas Virginia to end the war quickly in 1861, led strong attack at Bull Run but ended up retreating |
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General PGT Beauregard |
met McDowell's forces with 20,000 men and forced them to retreat at Bull Run |
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General George B McClellan |
ordered by Lincoln to take control of north western Virginia to control the railway connecting DC to the Ohio River, led to the creation of West Virginia, replaced McDowell after Bull Run |
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Battle of Bull Run |
north thought they would have an easy win, but the south counter attacked and forced the north to retreat, proved that it wasn't going to be an easy end to the rebellion |
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Battle of Antietam |
Lee was outnumbered but Jackson's army came to help him, ended up retreating to Virginia, major Union loses, bloodiest day in American history |
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Fort Donelson |
on the Cumberland River and wanted by the Union to help divide the Confederacy geographically
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General Ulysses S Grant |
Union general who captured Fort Donelson
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Battle of Shiloh |
Grant realized they needed to completely conquest the south in order to keep the Union together
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Admiral David G Farragut |
captured new orleans from the confederacy which was their largest city and financial center
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Enrollment Act (1863) |
to draft people into the war, German and Irish refused because they didn't see it as their war, Dems said they were trying to get poor whites to free the slaves that would eventually take their jobs |
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New York City Draft Riots |
Irish and Germans burning draft offices, attacking republican homes, police, and african americans, troops were brought in and killed more than 100 rioters
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Joseph Brown |
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Dorothea DIx |
opened up nursing as an occupation for women by being the superintendent of female nurses, advanced the equality of women far more than if there had been no war |
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Clara Barton |
Union nurse who founded the American Red Cross |
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Homestead Act (1862) |
gave settlers 160 acres of land after 5 years of residence, goal was to boost agricultural output
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National Banking Acts |
forced banks to but the bonds that were issued by the Treasury Department in order for banks to do their part in raising money toward the war effort |
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Legal Tender Act (1862) |
authorized $150 million in paper money (greenbacks) and they became a form of legal money |
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Confiscation Act (1861) |
authorized the seizure of all property, including slaves, that aided the rebellion, this allowed republicans to fight slavery by saying it was for a military cause |
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Thaddeus Stevens |
led the fight against slavery using legislation, persuaded Congress to end slavery in DC by providing compensation for their owners |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
after a Union victory Lincoln declared slavery abolished in all states outside of the Union, if they rejoined the Union they could keep their slaves, good politically in that it didn't threaten slavery in those states that were still in the Union (the border states)
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Vicksburg |
Grant defeated two Confederate armies, after six weeks Vicksburg, Mississippi surrendered to the Union, this cut off Louisiana Texas and Arkansas from the rest of the Confederacy, and prompted thousands of slaves to leave their plantations |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
Lee began moving North and met George G Meade with his troops, Lee was outnumbered but attacked viciously, both suffered thousands of casualties, Meade allowed Lee to retreat because there were so many, Lincoln got mad saying this would just continue to draw out the war, marked a turning point for the Union
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Battle of Chancellorsville |
Lee victory that helped stop northern support for the war, as the Confederacy kept winning many northerns wanted to negotiate peace
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General Robert E. Lee |
offered command of the Union Army but resigned instead and led the Confederate Army |
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Fort Wagner |
convinced the Union of the value of black soldiers, after the 54th Massachusetts won here, 200,000 blacks were allowed to fight for the north |
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General William T Sherman |
ordered by Grant to take Atlanta, believed that secession was anarchy, took up "hard war" mentality that all men of the south were his enemies even though he was in favor of slavery, marched from Atlanta to Savannah destroying everything in his path and taking both cities, gave land to the slaves he freed |
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Andrew Johnson |
followed Lincoln, common man, had refused to leave the Union so Lincoln made him military governor of Tennessee then VP, as president he disagreed with republican values and didn't have any moral sense or political judgment |
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Thirteenth Amendment |
abolished slavery |
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Appomattox Court House |
where Lee surrendered, the Confederacy men were allowed to go home and the Confederacy completely disbanded |
