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Fort Sumter |
(1861) A federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning the Civil War. |
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Border States |
Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri-slave sates did not join the Confederacy. |
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Winfield Scott |
developed a two-part strategy: (1) destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade of southern ports; (2) gain control of the Mississippi River to divide South. Other leaders urged an attack on Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital. |
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Cotton Diplomacy |
Was the great idea that Great Britain would support the Confederacy because it needed the South's raw cotton to supply it's booming textile industry. |
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First Battle of Bull Run |
Union lost
Showed the war would be long and bloody
Civilians came to watch |
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54th Massachusetts |
Consisted of mostly of free African Americans
The regiment led a heroic charge on the South Carolina's Fort Wagner |
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Antietam |
Bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War
Matthew Brady's photographs shocked America
McClellan was fired
Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Cotton Diplomacy dead
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Ulysses S. Grant |
Impatient when he was asked to lead defensive maneuvers
Wanted to be on attack
Commander of forces in the Unions Western campaign |
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Clarra Barton |
Organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battle field
Founded the American Red Cross
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Siege of Vicksburg |
General troops began it in mid-May 1863 cutting off the city and shelling it rapidly |
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Emancipation Proclomation |
Lincoln wrote it to free the Confederate slaves
1862 |
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"Stonewall" Jackson |
Confederate general who saved the Battle of Bull Run
Stood like a "stone wall" against the Union
Told his troops to "yell like the furies of hell" -Rebel Yell |
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Robert E. Lee |
General of the Confederate army
Most skilled general of the Civil War |
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Habeus Corpus |
Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisionment |