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14 Cards in this Set
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Fort Sumter |
a federal outpost in Charleston, South Carolina, that was attacked by Confederate troops, beginning of the Civil War |
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Border States |
wedged between the North and South, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri—slave states that didn't join the Confederacy |
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Winfield Scott |
developed a two-part strategy: •destroy the South's economy with a naval blockade of Southern ports •gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the South |
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Cotton Diplomacy |
the 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 |
the first major battle of the Civil War, also known as the Battle of Manassas. It shattered the North's hopes of winning the war quickly. |
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Robert E. Lee |
commander of Confederate army,served in Mexican War and led federal troops to Harpers Ferry |
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Antietam |
bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War,Mathew Brady's photographer shocked America,McClellan was fired,Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation,Cotton Diplomacy was dead. |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
bold and restless,asked to lead defensive maneuvers,wanted to be on the attack,commander of forces in the Union's western campaign. |
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54th Massachusetts |
consisted mostly of free African Americans,July 1863,led a heroic change on South Carolina's Fort Wagner |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Lincoln,the order to free the Confederate slaves. |
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Siege of Vicksburg |
General Grant's troops,mid-May of 1863,cutting off the city and shelling it repeatedly. |
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Clara Barton |
organized the ole toon of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield. |
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Stonewall Jackson |
Confederate general who saved the Battle of the Bull Run,stood like a "stone wall" against the union,told his troops to "yell like the furies of hell" -Robert Yell |
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Habevs Corpus |
a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment. |
