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29 Cards in this Set
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Fort Sumter
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Head of Union forces was Anderson; head of Confederate forces was Beauregard; Confederates won and it was after the enaugeration.
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Anaconda Plan
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a three-part strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War.
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Bull Run
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Head of the Union forces was Mcdowell; head of the confederate forces was Jackson; Confederates won and Jackson’s nickname was “Stonewall Jackson.”
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Stonewall Jackson
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“There is Jackson standing like a stone wall!” a general shouted, originating this nickname.
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George McClellan
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led the new Union army, encamped near Washington.
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Ulysses S. Grant
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a rumpled West Point graduate who had failed at everything he had tried in civilian life – whether as farmer, bill collector, real estate agent, or store clerk.
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Shiloh
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Head of Union forces was Ulysses S. Grant; Head of Confederate forces was Johnson and Beauregard; Union won and it wasn’t going to end quickly, more deadly.
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Monitor
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an ironclad ship used by the North in the Civil War.
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Merrimack
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an ironclad ship used by the South in the Civil War.
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Robert E. Lee
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commanded the Confederate army
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Antietam
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Head of Union forces was McClellan; head of Confederate forces was Lee; North won and it was the bloodiest battle.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1st, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions behind Confederate lines. - in the North
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Habeaus corpus
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a court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed.
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copperheads
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– Northern Democrats who advocated peace with the South.
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conscription
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a draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army.
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Fort Pillow
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a massacre occurred here in Tennessee when Confederate troops killed over 200 African-American prisoners and some whites as they begged for their lives.
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income tax
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a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual’s income.
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Clara Burton
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a Union nurse who often cared for the sick and wounded at the front lines.
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Andersonville
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a prison in Georgia jammed 33,000 men into 26 acres, or about 34 square feet per man.
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Gettysburg
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the battle which many historians consider the turning point of the Civil War. It crippled the South so badly that General Lee would never again possess sufficient forces to invade a Northern state.
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Chancellorsville
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the South defeat the North here in Virginia.
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Vicksburg
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Mississippi, was one of only two Confederate holdouts preventing the Union from taking complete control of the Mississippi River, an important waterway for transporting goods.
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Gettysburg Address
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a famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln in November 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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commander of the military division of the Mississippi.
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Appomattox Court House
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town near Appomattox, Virginia, where Lee surrendered to Grant on April 9, 1865, thus ending the Civil War.
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National Bank Act
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legislation passed in 1863 to make banking safer for investors. Its provisions included a system of federally chartered banks, new requirements for loans, and a system for the inspection of banks.
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Thirteenth Amendment
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an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1865, that has abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. - in the US
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Red Cross
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an international organization that provides relief to people in times of war or natural disaster. Clara Barton founded the American branch in 1881.
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John Wilkes Booth
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a 26 year old actor, Southern sympathizer, and assasin.
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