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17 Cards in this Set
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Sumter |
a fort of the coast of SC that was taken over by Confederate military forces |
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William Sherman |
he was the General the led troops through GA and SC destroying property at they went along (advanced) |
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Richmond |
Confederate capital during the war
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refugee |
person who fled (ran away from) the war
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Abraham Lincoln |
President during the war, he thought no state could leave the Union by its own choice
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Robert E Lee |
Confederacy president
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King Cotton Diplomacy |
Confederacy political policy,based on the belief that French and British textile mills needed the South's cotton
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ironclads |
armored vessels that the Confederate Nay used during the war
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Gettysburg |
the battle that was the turning point of the war in the east
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Jefferson Davis |
Confederate general who surrendered at Appomattox Court House
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conscription |
draft
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Columbia |
capital of SC that was occupied by the Union during Feb. 17-20 1865
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border states |
slave stated that did not secede (along the western counties of VA and became known as West VA) |
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blockade runners |
fast ships that were suppose to be able to out run naval ships
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blockade |
use of naval forces to stop shipping
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barter |
to trade for another item |
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anaconda |
the plan where the Union planned to take the Mississippi River and beat the Confederacy |
