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21 Cards in this Set
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Mother Bickerdyke (8)
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1. Botanic physician
2. Sent to the encampment to care for the men 3. Cleaned hospital tents and soldiers, cooked, nourshed soldiers 4. Exposed the War Department's inability to meet the needs of the nation's first mass army 5. Official agent of "The Sanitary" 6. Key figure in the medical support for General Grant's campaigns along the Mississippi River 7. Served as the "middle woman" between the home front and the battlefield 8. Actions were typical of those in many communities, showing that while national unity failed, the strength of local communities endured |
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Galesburg, Illinois (2)
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1. Sent a regiment of men
2. Many of the 500 men they sent died of diseases such as dysentery, pneumonia, typhoid and the measles |
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Women's Central Association of Relief (3)
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1. Organized by abolitionists, temperance supporters and supporters of the education movement
2. 7,000 chapters throughout theh North 3. Worked to raise funds, make and collect food, clothes, medicine, bandages and more than 250,000 quilts and comforters |
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United States Sanitary Commission (3)
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1. Established in June 1861
2. Created by Lincoln 3. Had the power to investigate and advise the Medical Bureau |
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Total deaths of the Civil War
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620,000
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Fort Sumter (3)
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1. South Carolina
2. Fort claimed by both the North and the South 3. Controlled the entrance to the Carleston harbor |
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Battle at Fort Sumter (6)
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1. April 12 - 14, 1861
2. On April 6, Lincoln told the SC governor that he was sending a relief force to Fort Sumter with food, but no military supplies 3. April 10, 1861, Davis ordered General P.G.T. Beauregard to demand the surrender of the area 4. Lincoln's forces reached the area on April 12 5. Union forces surrendered on April 14 6. Anderson was general in the North |
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Results of Fort Sumter (4)
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1. Began the Civil War
2. Showed Southern hostility 3. Loss of the area 4. North mobilizes an army |
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Major Robert Anderson
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Leading general in the Battle at Fort Sumter
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General P.G.T. Beauregard (2)
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1. General at Fort Sumter
2. General at First Bull Run |
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Atmosphere at the beginning of the war
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Strong patriotism in both the North and the South
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First states to secede (7)
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South Carolina
Mississippi Florida Alabama Georgia (as) Louisiana Texas |
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States to secede after firing at Fort Sumter (4)
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1. Virginia
2. Arkansas 3. Tennessee 4. North Carolina |
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Border states (5)
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1. Missouri
2. Kentucky 3. Maryland 4. West Virginia 5. Delaware |
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Importance of Maryland
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Maryland's secession would result in D.C. being surrounded by Confederate territory
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Maryland (4)
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1. Loyalty to the Union split
2. Lincoln sent Union troops to crucial railroads 3. Declared martial law in Baltimore 4. Arrested suspected ringleaders of the pro-Confederate mob and held them without trial |
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First Battle of Bull Run (6)
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1. July 1861
2. Manassas Creek, Virginia 3. Union army was extremely confident of victory 4. Southern army led by General P.G.T. Beauregard 5. Northern army was led by McDowell and McClellan 6. Northern spectators came to watch |
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Results of the First Bull Run (4)
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1. "Manassas Syndrome"
2. Foreshadowed difficulty of the war to come 3. Union forced on a humiliating defeat 4. Made the Union nervous to go on an offensive |
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Strengths of the North (3)
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1. 2.5 times the South's population
2. 9 times the industrial capacity of the South 3. Commitment to market revolution |
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Strengths of the South (9)
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1. Defensive war
2. United almost all white citizens 3. Guerilla opposition 5. Home-field advantage 6. Similar advantages to America in the Revolutionary War 7. Robert E. Lee 8. Slaves could man plantation while masters fought 9. Cotton production |
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Union weaknesses (2)
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1. Untrained troops
2. Military's only experience was in small Indian wars |
