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30 Cards in this Set
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Union u1 |
United States of America, North wore blue uniforms and won the war |
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Blockade U2 |
Union Navy ships along the coast of the south blocking trade, commerce, and people from getting in or out of the south. Very effective in limiting the souths supplies but was very difficult to maintain |
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Ironclads U3 |
Ships heavily armored with iron. Famous ironclads in the war monitor vs merrimack. |
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Border States U4 |
4 southern save holding states who did not secede |
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Copperhead U5 |
Northern Democrats who opposed the war |
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Contrabands U6 |
Escaped slaves who fought for the union |
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Cotton diplomacy U7 |
Idea that Britainwould support the south because it needed raw materials |
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Total War U8 |
Destroying civilian and economic resources. General Sherman ' strategy leave nothing behind, destroy the souths economy and spirit |
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Abraham Lincoln U9 |
U.S president during the Civil War |
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Clara Barton U10 |
Known as the angel of the battlefield, organized medicine and nurses for field hospitals. Later founded the Red Cross |
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Winfield Scott U11 |
General who had the blockade implemented |
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Ulysses S. Grant U12 |
Head of the union army after Vicksburg |
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George Meade U13 |
Union general in charge of the battle of Gettysburg |
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David Farragut U14 |
Union Navy admiral. Captured new Orleans and held the blockade. |
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George B. McClellan U15 |
Union general fired by Lincoln for incompetency |
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William Tecumseh Sherman U16 |
Union officer who led a famous march to the sea Vin which he destroyed railroads, bridges, crops, livestock, and other southern resources |
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Battle of Shiro U17 |
Union Victory, gave the union greater control over the Mississippi. River valley |
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Battle of Antietam U18 |
North technically wins, bloodiest single battle of the war. When the battle was over the north gained control of the battle. |
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Battle of Vicksburg U19 |
Union Victory, western southern states were cut off from the rest of the south |
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Battle of Gettysburg U20 |
3 day battle. Bloodiest battle in the entire war. Union troops had the advantage due to the position of their troops |
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Gettysburg Adress U21 |
Lincolnshire speech that was dedicated to the dead troops and reminded everyone why the war was being fought. |
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Appomattox Courthouse U22 |
Where Robert E. Lee surrendered to the union due to being surrounded and being out of supplies |
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Lincolns first inaugural address U23 |
Lincoln promised to allow slavery in the south, keep the federal government from attacking the south, and to preserve 5 the union |
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Lincolns main goal U24 |
To reunite the north and the south |
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Emancipation Proclamation U25 |
Lincolns orders for all slaves to be greed in the Confederate states. |
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54th Massachusetts Infintry U26 |
Famous African American unit led a heroic charge on south Carolinas fort Wagner |
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Strengths of the north in the beginning of the war U27 |
More factories and industries/ stronger economy. More railroads/ better transportation network. More soldiers/ larger population |
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When the south seceded, did Lincoln recognize them as their own country? U28 |
No, they called themselves the Confederate states but Lincoln considered the union to be unbroken |
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The war is over, the rebels are our country men again U29 |
Ulysses S . Grant |
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Inequalities of the black soldier U30 |
Killed or sold into slavery and given inferior task and pay |
