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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 the Civil War. |
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Border States |
Wedged between the North and South were the key Border States of Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri-slave states that did not join the Conederacy. |
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Winfield Scott |
Developed a two part strategy: (1) destroy the South's economy with naval blockade of the southern ports; (2) gain control of the Mississippi River to divide the south. Other leaders urged an attack on Richmond, Virginia, the Confederacy capital. |
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Cotton Diplomacy |
Cotton Diplomacy This was 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 |
Union lost showed the war would be long and bloody civilians came to watch |
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Robert E. Lee |
General of the Confederate army Most skilled general of the Civil War |
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Antietam |
Bloodiest one day battle of the Civil war Matthew Brady's photograph shocked America McClellan was fired Lincoln issued the Emancipation proclamation Cotton Diplomacy was dead |
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Stonewall Jackson |
"There is Jackson standing like a stonewall!" Cried one southern officer "Rally behind Virginians!" At that moment General Thomas Stonewall Jackson earned his famous nickname |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
He finally wrote the Emancipation Proclamation the order to free the confederate Slaves |
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Habeus Corps |
Is a constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment |
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Clara Barton |
One women brought strength and comfort to countless wounded Union Soldiers Volunteer Clara Barton organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delivery to the battlefield at the field hospitals |
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54th Massachusetts |
The 54th Massachusetts consisted mostly of free African Americans in July 1863 this regiment led a heroic charge on South Carolina's Fort Wagner |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
While Lincoln Fumed over the cautious, hesitant General McClellan, he had no such problems with Ulysses S. Grant Bold and restless, Grant gees impatient when he was asked to be on the attack as a commander of forces in the union's western campaign he would get his wish |
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Siege of Vicksburg |
General Grant's troops began the Siege of Vicksburg in mid May 1863 cutting off the city and shelling it repeatedly |
