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10 Cards in this Set
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Fort Sumter
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its fall initiated the Civil War
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1st Bull Run
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a Confederate victory stuns the North
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Forts Henry and Donelson
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major forts are captured on the Tennesse and Cumberland Rivers. (They feed into the Mississipi River.)
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Monitor vs. Virginia
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through the clash of the two ironclads was essentially a draw, nations around the world begin to rebuild their navies.
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New Orleans
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the South's largest city and financial hub fell to naval forces under David Farragut.
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Shiloh, Tenn.
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high loss of life convinced both sides they were engaged in a "war of attrition".
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Antietam
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Union victory prevented foreign assistance to the South and gave Lincoln the needed political cover to write the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Vicksburg
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essentially gave the Union Control of the Mississipi River.
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Gettysburg
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- the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, the South never again invaded the North.
- followed a few months later by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address |
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Richmond
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Final battle. Appomattox Court House. Lee and Grant shock hands (end of war).
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