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30 Cards in this Set
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Fort Sumter |
site of the first shots of the Civil War |
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Anaconda plan |
3 part strategy by which the Union proposed to defeat the Confederacy in the Civil War |
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First Battle of Bull Run |
first major engagement of the Civil War, 25 miles from Union capital- Confederate victory |
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Stonewall Jackson |
nickname given to Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson for holding the line at Bull Run |
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George McClellan |
1st commander of the Union army in the East |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
commander of the Union army in the West |
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Battle of Shiloh |
Union victory that taught both sides a strategic lesson - scouts to find the other army, build fortifications and trenches |
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David Farragut |
led Union Navy attacks from New Orleans to Vicksburg |
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Monitor |
Northern ironclad with a rotating turret, which fought the Merrimack |
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Merrimack |
Confederate ironclad that fought the Monitor |
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Robert E. Lee |
Confederate commander throughout the war |
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Battle of Antietam |
1st Confederate battle on northern soil, bloodiest single day of the war |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
freed all slaves in rebellious states |
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Habeas Corpus |
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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Copperhead |
Northern Democrats that wanted peace with the South |
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conscription |
the draft |
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Fort Pillow |
a massacre of 200 black prisoners |
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income tax |
a tax that takes a specified percentage of an individual's wages |
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Clara Barton |
a nurse who carried wounded from the battlefield became known as "the angel of the battlefield" |
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Andersonville |
worst Confederate prison, 33,000 men jammed into 26 acres |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
Union victory that is considered the turning point of the war |
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Picket's Charge |
Confederate charge on the 3rd day of Gettysburg Battle. South lost 1/2 its Army |
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Vicksburg |
Union victory that took control of Mississippi River and split the South in two |
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Gettysburg Address |
Lincoln's speech after the battle to honor the men who fought and died for their country |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
Commander of the military division in Mississippi , he and Grant believed in total warfare |
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Appomattox Courthouse |
site of the Southern surrender on April 9, 1865 |
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National Bank Act |
created federally chartered banks, requirements for loans and provided for banks to be inspected |
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13th Amendment |
abolished slavery |
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Red Cross |
established in 1881, founded with the help of Clara Barton |
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John Wilkes Booth |
Abraham Lincoln's assassin |
