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24 Cards in this Set
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Anaconda Plan |
Naval blockade of Southern ports and control of the Mississippi River to divide the South in two |
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Battle of Antietam |
First northern victory on the east front and the bloodiest single-day victory of the war |
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Conscription |
Making certain people be required to join the army |
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CSA |
Confederate States of America |
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Jefferson Davis |
President of the Confederacy in the South |
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Guerillas |
Members of a small, independent group that part in irregular fighting tactics and tend to travel on foot and in the dark of night |
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Robert E. Lee |
Commanded Southern armies |
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Abraham Lincoln |
President of the Union during the Civil War; issued the Emancipation Proclamation in order to free the CSA's slaves |
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Misfired Elections |
Candidate wins Electoral College but not popular vote |
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Passive Defense |
A fighting strategy of simply protecting the South's borders |
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Railhead |
Point on a railway where military supplies are loaded |
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Winfield Scott |
A Union General that served in the Army longest and is known as one of the best generals in American history; devised Scott's Great Snake |
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Scott's Great Snake |
Nickname for the Anaconda Plan |
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Strategic Withdrawl |
Drawing Northern forces into the South where they could be isolated and defeated |
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Trench Warfare |
Type of fighting in which troops construct and then occupy long narrow ditches to face the enemy |
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Westpoint |
A military academy that a majority of civil war generals attended |
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Habeas Corpus |
Right of anyone under arrest to appeal to a court of law before being detained |
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Copperheads |
Peace Democrats, Democrats with outspoken opposition to the war |
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General Strike |
Occurs when a majority of the labor force refuses to work, often until their demands are met or a compromise is agreed |
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Midterm elections |
All members of the House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are up for re-election every two years. |
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War Democrats |
Supported the war but disliked Republican economic policies and Lincoln's violation of civil rights in wartime. |
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Scalawags |
Southern born white Republican; Southerners believed these people were betraying the South |
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Carpet baggers |
Northern born white Republican who moved South after the war, many won political office or became rich businessmen. |
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Suffrage |
Right to vote in political elections |
