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31 Cards in this Set
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Confederate States of America
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Delegates from the deep south met in Montgomery, Alabama on feb 4, 1860 to establish the Confederate States of America. Similar constitution to the US except central gov denied authority to impose protective tariffs, subsidize internal improvements, or interfere with slavery, also required to pass laws protecting slavery in the territories.
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Cotton Kingdom
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At the beginning of the war, England and France depended on the South for three-quarters of their cotton supply. This fostered hopes of diplomatic support from these nations
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Gettysburg Address
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Lincoln's speech that justified the enormous sacrifice of life on the battlefields with the struggle to preserve and extend the democratic ideal, or to ensure that "government of the people, by the people, and for the people, will not perish from the earth"
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Robert Anderson
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Union major, leader in the defense of Fort Sumter
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Winfield Scott
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Mexican war hero, Union army commander. Recommended Anaconda Plan, led the Union army in the battle of Bull Run
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Anaconda Plan
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Plan to squeeze South into submission by blockading the southern coasts, seizing control of the Mississippi, and cutting off supplies of food and other essential commodities.
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Conscription
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Draft. In the North the enrollment act of march 1863 provided for outright conscription of white males but permitted men of wealth to hire substitutes or pay a fee to avoid military service.
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Crittenden Plan
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Proposed by kentucky senator John Crittenden. Advocated extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific and federal compensation to the owners of escaped slaves and a constitutional amendment that would forever prohibit the federal government from abolishing or regulating slavery in the states.
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Ft Sumter
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A fort in Charleston, SC. Confederates fired on the fort and gained control of it.
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Confederate Ordance Bureau
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Government sponsered crash program under Genersal Josiah Gorgas that produced armaments to supply the South throughout the war.
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Pierre G.T. Beauregard
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One of the South's best generals, he did not get along with Jefferson Davis
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Braxton Bragg
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One of the worst Southern generals, but a personal favorite of Davis.
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Stonewall Jackson
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Confederate military hero of the Battle of Bull Run. He earned the nickname Stonewall for holding the line against the northern assault. He led the Confederates to victory in Shenendoa Valley, the Second Battle of Bull Run, and Chancellorsville, VA where he died
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Monitor and Merrimac
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The Merrimac also called the Virginia, was the Confederate ironclad vessel. It had been defeated by the monitor, Union armored and turreted gunship
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Gettysburg
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Lee marched into Gettysburg, PA, where he confronted a Union army led by Meade that had taken up strong defensive positions on Cemetary Ridge and Culp's hill. Lee retreated .
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Jefferson Davis
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The president of the Confederacy. He assumed direction of the armed forces, but left policy making to congress. His greatest failure was his lack of initiative and leadership in dealing with the problems on the home front.
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George McClellan
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Extremely cautious Union General whose army was defeated in the battle of Seven Pines. He was also the Democratic candidate that ran against Lincoln in the election of 1864
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Robert E. Lee
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Confederate general. He was neither a defender of slavery nor a southern nationalist, but he was loyal to the state of Virginia. he battled with McClellan's troops over the peninsula and at Sharbsburg, where he was forced to fall back. He also led the Confederate army at Gettsburg
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Union military leader that commanded the joint military-naval opperation that captured ft. Henry and ft. Donelson. He also led the seige on Vicksburg, leading to a promotion to general in chief. He led the army in a series of battles against Lee, including Petersburg and Richmond, then cutting off the Southern troops, forcing them to surrender.
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King Cotton Diplomacy
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The Confederates hoped to win support from Europe because they depended on their cotton.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Freed slaves in Confederate areas that were not occupied by the Union Army
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Appotamox Courthouse
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Where Confederate troops surrendered on april 9, 1865
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Trent incident
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Confederate diplomats Mason and Slidell were sent to push for full recognition from England and France. They boarded the British steamer Trent but were captured by a U.S. warship. Britain threatened war unless they were let free, which Lincoln and Seward did.
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13th Amendment
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amendment passed in 1865 that outlawed involuntary servitude.
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Copperheads
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Northern Democrats suspected of being indifferent or hostile to the Union cause in the Civil War
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Clement Vallandigham
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Democratic congressman from Ohio who was an alleged ringleader of anti-war mobs
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New York Riot
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1863 riot against the draft. The New York mob, which consisted mainly Irish-American laborers, burned draft offices, the homes of leading Republicans, and a black children's orphanage. Over 12 blacks were lynched, and 120 people died.
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Sherman’s March to the Sea
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Sherman's(Union general) march through Georgia to the sea where he destroyed almost everything of military or economic value. He then turned north and applied his scorched-earth policy to SC
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John Wilkes Booth
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The pro-Confederate actor that assassinated Lincoln.
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Antietam
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The bloodiest battle of the war fought in Sharpsburg, where almost 5 thousand men on the two sides had been killed and eighteen thousand wounded. The result was a draw, but Lee was forced to draw back south of the Potomac to protect his supply lines.
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Vicksburg
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The only thing that stood between the Union and the Mississippi River. Grant began a siege in 1863. Vicksburg fell to Grant on July 4
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