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19 Cards in this Set
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Abraham Lincoln |
16th president during the Civil War |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
General for the war |
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Robert E. Lee |
General for the South |
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Stonewall Jackson |
General for the South/Lees right hand man |
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John Wilkes Booth |
Assassinated Lincoln |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the confederacy |
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Battle of Bull Run |
First battle of the war- South won |
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Battle of the Ironclads |
Major naval (sea) battle |
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Battle of Shiloh |
Grant tried to take the Mississippi river-Northern victory |
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Battle of Antietam |
Maryland- Many casualties (death)- North victory |
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Union |
North |
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Confederates |
South |
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Border States |
Southern states didn't secede (Maryland) |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Freed slaves in the South, African Americans could join Military |
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Gettysburg address |
Speech by Lincoln dedicating a cemetery in those who died in battle |
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Anaconda Plan |
Planned to take the Mississippi river,blockade ports, captured richman |
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Appomattox Court House |
Place where Lee surrendered for Grant |
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Strengths of the Union |
Strong, central government, factories, railroads, lincoln, money, and population |
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Strengths of the confederacy |
General Lee and Stonewall Jackson, motivated to protect their land, experience with weapons |
