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26 Cards in this Set
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Total War
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War on all aspects of the enemy's life
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Resistance
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An opposing force
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Entrench
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Occupying a strong defensive position
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Siege
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Military blockade
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Habeus Corpus
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A legal order for an inquiry to determine wheter a person has been lawfully imprisoned
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Greenback
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A piece of U.S. paper money first issued by the north during the civil war
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Draft
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The selection of persons for military service
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Inflation
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A continuous rise in the price of goods and services
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Bounty
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money given as a reward such as to encourage enlistment in the army
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Tributary
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A smaller river that flows into a larger river
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Casualty
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A military person killed, wounded, or captured
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Ironclad
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Armored navy vessel
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Border State
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State between the North and the South that was divided over whether to stay in the Union or the Confederacy
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Blockade
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Cut off area by means of troops or warships to stop suppplies or people from coming in or going out to close of a contrys ports
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Export
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to selll goods
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Abrahan Lincoln
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16th president
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Anaconda Plan
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Scott's plan
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"Stonewall" Jackson
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General Thomas Jackson was standin in the middle of war "heroically"
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Ulyyses S Grant
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Union army general
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Battle of Shiloh
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Lasted two days one of the most bloodiest grusome wars
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Robert E. Lee
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Confederate General
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Battle of Antietam
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The deadliest single day of fighting during the war. Important win for the Union
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Fredrick Douglass
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Urged Lincoln to make a fight to end slavery.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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A decree freeing all enslaved people in rebel territory
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Bread Riots
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Hungry people took the streets mob, mostly made of women and children gathered to protest but soon started ravaging windows etc.
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Gettysburg adress
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Abe's speech.. Lots of bad reviews sayin it wasn't long enough or not enough fancy words
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