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20 Cards in this Set
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Fort Sumter
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Location of the first battle of the civil war on April 12, 1861
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Executive power
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During the civil war, Lincoln suspended habeus corpus, allowing anyone to be imprisoned without a trial
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Habeas Corpus
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The right to a lawful trial, was suspended by Licoln during the civil war
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Insurrection
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This was widespread among slaves during the civil war and included sabotage and destruction of machinery
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Border States
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States the allowed slavery, but had not seceded from the union
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Confederate States of America
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formed shortly before Lincoln took office, consisting of the seceded states
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Jefferson Davis
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The first and only president of the confederacy
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Alexander H. Stephens
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A previous friend of Lincoln's, he was elected the vice president of the confederacy and gave his "Cornerstone Speech", famously stating that the confederacy was founded on the idea of black inferiority
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Bull Run
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Battle outside of D.C., Jackson and his men held "like a stone wall" forcing the union to retreat
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Thomas "Stonewall" JAckson
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Brilliant Confederate general, his men stopped the union at Bull Run
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Winfield Scott
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United States Army general, diplomat, and presidential candidate, he came up with the Anaconda Plan
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Anaconda Plan
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A plan proposed by General Winfield Scott, it involved blockading the south and taking control of the mississippi river to "suffocate" the south
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George McClellan
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a master organizer and planner who was put in charge of preparing the army
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Robert E. Lee
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Head Confederate general, opposed secession, but did not think that the union should be held together by force
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Antietam
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The Southern invasion of the North began on September 17 at Antietam creek, the single bloodiest day of the war with 22,000 deaths
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Fredericksberg
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More than 10,000 men killed or wounded in his rash frontal attack on Lee's strong position at Fredericksburg, Virginia, on December 13, 1862
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Monitor and Merrimac
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These two ships were the first armored warships, made by the North and South, respectively.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Union military commander,ultimately defeated Lee
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Shiloh
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Union troops were ambushed, yet the Union troops under General Prentiss managed to hold the "Hornet's Nest", against all odds
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David Farragut
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Union naval officer who captured New Orleans
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