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technology of the civil war |
refile, bullets, submarines, balloons, grenade, telegraphs, photography, railroad and iron ships |
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money/industry railroad population navy |
union advantages |
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only ha to fight a defensive war and only had to protect territory |
confederacy advantages |
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photographer of bloody battles antietam and aftermath 1st time people saw war |
Matthew Brady |
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commander of the army of N VA, retreated from antietam and Gettysburg, surrendered to grant at Appomattox court house |
robert e lee |
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president of the confederate states of america |
jefferson davis |
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fails at peninsular campaign, released of command, back at antietam -- victory, but released again for not going after lee ran against Lincoln in 1864 as democrat |
george McCellan |
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union general at second bull run released from command |
john pope |
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union general of army of potomac |
ambrose burnside |
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general in west (winning) until 1864 when moved east defeated lee with war of attrition surrendered to at Appomattox court house |
ulysses s grant |
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union officer of navy during civil war |
David Farragut |
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people excited and came to watch longer and harder than expected 1st major battle of civil war McDowell vs Lee Confed win -- Union retreats |
bull run |
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part of peninsular campaign |
7 days |
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pope vs lee manasses 25000 casuties at brawner farm longstreet comes to assist lee drove union army back to bull run |
2nd bull run |
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bloodiest single day in US history mcclellan vs lee (cornfield, sunken road, burnishes bridge) conned retreat un victory after emancipation proc passed GB and FR out |
antietam |
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johnston came upon UN at Tennessee river drove union out and threatened to hurt grant's force johnstaon replaced with beauregard overpowered by grant 23000 casulties |
shiloh |
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the war is about slavery slavery will end after union won a significant battle |
emancipation proclomation |
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1st republican to run missouri governor issued 1st emancipation proc in Missouri |
john fremont |
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volunteer infantry 1st official bllack unit attacked Ft. Wagner |
54th Massachusetts |
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burnside vs lee burnside sent his army lee trenched in and city of city union laid pontoon bridges to get over river at night fight at hill burnside retreats back over river |
Fredericksburg |
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hooker vs lee lee attacked while in woods (surprise attack) confed wins |
Chancellorsville |
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lee vs meade confed pushed back to iron Belgrade and a bunch of other bloody battles lees invasion failed surrendered |
gettysburg |
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showed war brought new rebirth of freedom dedicated cemetery at gettysburg |
gettysburg address |
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grant vs lee confed in city and grant tries to attack impossible, so siege city bomb until ran out of food confed surrender lower south morale |
Vicksburg |
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habeas corpus |
suspended by lincoln |
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have slaves but part of union Delaware, maryland, Kentucky and Missouri |
border states |
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founded red cross |
clara barton |
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norhterners that were sympathetic for south and opposed war |
copperhead |
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union general at antietam, fredricks, chancel.) |
joe hooker |
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union general at gettysburg |
george meade |
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assault ordered by grant against meade on cemetery ridge |
picketts charge |
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engage opposite side wherever goes wear them down |
war of attrition |
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destroy everything in site |
total war |
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lincoln vs mcclellan lincoln reelected |
election of 1864 |
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rehearsal for reconstruction sent slaves to island and set up society before war over q |
sea island experiment |
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proposed reconstruction of the south pro radical republicans |
wade-davis bill |
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lee surrendered to grant |
appomattox court house |
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plan for reconstruction |
malice towards non with charity for all |
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assassinated lincoln |
john wilks booth |
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march to sea, wins from atlanta to savannah, total war |
william t sherman |
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sherman (un) destroyed everthing in path in Georgia to defeat confederacy |
march to sea |
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jeff davis's VP |
alexander stephens |
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radical republican |
Thaddeus stevens |
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get richmond from south (by Mcclellan) |
peninsular campaign |
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how long did the civil war last |
4 years |
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who shot lincoln |
john wilks booth |
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where did lee surrender to grant |
Gettysburg and Appomattox court house |
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battle furthest north |
gettysburg |
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how did lincoln stretch the reason of constitutional power |
suspended habeas corpus |
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in the first year where did most of the fighting take place |
virginia near the capitals |
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1 word to describe mcclellan |
indecisive
hesitant cautious |
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how does the south plan to win the war |
make war unpopular use cotton to get supplies and foreign allies defensive strategy (can't lose but don't have to win) |
