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24 Cards in this Set
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Anaconda Plan |
This military strategy called for the Union to blockade the southern coastline and to thrust, like a snake, down the Mississippi River. |
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Appomattox Courthouse |
The site where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant. |
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Battle of Antietam |
First major battle on Northern soil. |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
The greatest battle and the turning point of the Civil War. |
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Battle of Shiloh |
The bloodiest in American history to that date. It happened from April 6–7, 1862. |
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Battle of Vicksburg |
Strategic victory in the West. It gave the Union the control of the Mississippi River. |
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conscription |
This required all able–bodied white men aged eighteen to thirty–five to serve in the military for three years. Subsequent amendments raised the age limit to forty–five and then to fifty, and lowered it to seventeen. |
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cotton diplomacy |
Southerners believed that they could use cotton to help them win the Civil War. Southern notions of embargoing cotton exports in order to bring the British to their knees failed. Planters conducted business as usual by raising cotton and trying to slip it through the blockade. |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Issued on January 1, 1863, it declared “forever free” all slaves in areas in rebellion. |
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First Battle of Bull Run |
The first major land battle in the Civil War. It was also known as First Manasas. |
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Freedmen’s Bureau |
Created by Congress in March 1865, it had responsibility for the relief, education, and employment of former slaves. |
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Homestead Act |
Passed in 1862, embodied the Republican party’s ideal of “free soil, free labor, free men” by granting 160 acres of public land to settlers after five years of residence on the land. |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederacy. |
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Legal Tender Act |
Signed in 1862, it authorized the issue of $150 million of the so–called greenbacks. |
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Morrill Land Grant Act |
This gave to the states proceeds of public lands to fund the establishment of universities emphasizing “such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and mechanic arts.” It spurred the growth of large state universities, mainly in the Midwest and West. Michigan State, Iowa State, and Purdue universities, among many others, profited from the law. |
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National Bank Act |
This established criteria by which a bank could obtain a federal charter and issue national bank notes (notes backed by the federal government). It also gave private bankers an incentive to purchase war bonds. |
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New York City draft riots |
Enraged by the first drawing of names under the Enrollment Act and by a longshoremen’s strike in which blacks had been used as strikebreakers, mobs of Irish working–class men and women roamed the streets for four days until suppressed by federal troops. |
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Radical Republicans |
A group of Republicans that included Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, and Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania. They never formed a tightly knit unit; on some issues they cooperated with Lincoln. |
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Robert E. Lee |
Leader of the Confederate army. |
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Thirteenth Amendment |
The Constitutional amendment that abolished slavery. It was passed by Congress in 1865. |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
Leader of the Union army. |
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United States Sanitary Commission |
An organization that raised funds at “sanitary fairs,” bought and distributed supplies, ran special kitchens to supplement army rations, tracked down the missing, and inspected army camps. |
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William T. Sherman |
West Point graduate and Mexican–American war veteran who had most recently run a southern military academy. He lead the Union troops and captured Atlanta. |
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Women’s National Loyal League |
An organization that called for a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery, but it was used to promote woman suffrage as well. |
