History: Ch. 11 Vocab

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Fort Sumter

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Fort in SC, bombardment of it by Confederates started the war in 1861

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Anaconda Plan

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proposed in 1861 by Union General Winfield Scott to win the American Civil War with minimal loss of life, enveloping the Confederacy by blockade at sea and control of the Mississippi River.

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First Bull Run (First Manassass)

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the first major engagement of the Civil War

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General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson

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At the first battle of Bull Run, he and his brigade earned their sobriquet by standing (in the words of Gen. Barnard Bee) "like a stone wall."

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General George McClellan

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a major general, organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly as the general-in-chief of the Union Army.

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Army of the Potomac

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was the major Union Army in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.

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General Ulyssess S. "Unconditional Surrender" Grant

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was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States. He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

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John Slidell

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Slidell was appointed special U.S. envoy to Mexico to adjust the Texas boundary and to negotiate the purchase of California and New Mexico

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Emancipation Proclamation

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the executive order abolishing slavery in the Confederate States of America.

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writ of habeus corpus

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???

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Ex parte Milligan

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case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1866. By authorization of Congress, President Lincoln in 1863 suspended the writ of habeas corpus in cases where military officers held persons for offenses against the armed services.

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Copperheads

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a reproachful term for those Northerners sympathetic to the South

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Mary Boykin Chestnuts

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a South Carolina woman famous for keeping an extremely detailed diary describing the American Civil War.

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54th Massachusettes Infantry

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one of the first official black units in the United States armed forces

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Battle of Chancellorsville, VA

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battle in which rebels ambushed union forces, Stonewall Jackson mortally wounded, Lee's last great victory

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Battle of Gettysburg

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largest number of casualties during war, turning point of war, a union victory

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General George Meade

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Union general, commander of the Army of the Potomac

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General James Longstreet

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Confederate general, surrendered with Lee at Appomattox

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General George Pickett

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Confederate general, led Pickett's Charge, annihilating his regiment

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Little Round Top

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the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg

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Colonel Joshua L. Chamberlain

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commanded the Union troops at the surrender ceremony for the infantry of Robert E. Lee's Army at Appomattox, Virginia.

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Battle of Vicksburg, MS

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he final significant battle in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War,Confederates surrendered, yielding command of the Mississippi River to the Union.

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Gettysburg Address

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speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln on Nov. 19, 1863, at the dedication of the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield of Gettysburg, Pa. It is one of the most famous and most quoted of modern speeches.

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General William Tecuseh Sherman

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Union general, led march through Georgia and destroyed everything in sight

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Monitor

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built for the Union navy in the U.S. Civil War by John Ericsson. Launched in Jan. 1862; battled Merrimack

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Merrimack

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an ironclad ram, according to a design prepared by Lt. J. M. Brooke, CSN. Commissioned as CSS Virginia 17 February 1862, the ironclad was the hope of the Confederacy to destroy the wooden ships in Hampton Roads and to end the Union blockade which had already seriously "crippled" the South.

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13th Amendment

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officially abolished and continues to prohibit slavery, plus (with limited exceptions, such as those convicted of a crime) prohibits involuntary servitude.

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Arlington, VA

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American military cemetery founded at the end of the Civil War

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"If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not serve!"

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William Sherman, on refusing to be a canidate for presidency

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cush

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Confederate stew made of bacon grease, beef cubes, and mashed-up cornbread.

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hardtack

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Union biscuits that could supposedly stop a bullet.

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Ford's Theatre

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site of Lincoln's assassination, at the time he was seeing Our American Cousin.

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bounties

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rewards for the finding of certain people, sometimes for their deaths.

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Unconditional Surrender

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nickname for Ulysses S. Grant, also means that one side surrenders with no negotiations.

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Confederate's flag

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the stars and the bars

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commander of Ft. Sumter

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Anderson

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this states succesion was a huge loss for the Union

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Virginia

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Who termed the "anocanda plan"?

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northern newspapers

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Inexperienced Union general at Bull Run

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McDowell

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Confederate general at Bull Run

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Stonewall Jackson

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head of the Union army

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Grant

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two forts Grant's union troops took?

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Ft. Henry and Donelson

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small Tenesssee church where Confederates surprised Union

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Shiloh

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commander of ships in charge of seizing new Orleans

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Farragut

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North's ironclad

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Monitor

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South's ironclad

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Merrimack

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Who designed the Monitor?

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Ericcson

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soft lead bullet

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minie Ball

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Army commander of the Confederacy before Lee?

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Johnston

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battles in which Lee frightened McClellan away collectively known as...?

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Seven Days Battles

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Who won Second Battle of Bull Run?

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Lee, Confederacy

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Where did McClellan find Lee's battle plans that lead to Antietam?

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wrapped around a bunch of cigars

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bloodiest single day battle in US history, it was a standoff

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Antietam

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Confederat diplomat who requested Britain recognize the Confederacy as an independent nation?

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Yancey

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Britain's posistion on Civil War?

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neutral

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diplomats sent a second time, arrested by Wilkes, freed by Lincoln?

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Mason and Slidell

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boat Mason and Slidell were on?

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Trent

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Did the Emanciaption Proclomation apply to slave states that had not seceded?

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no

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What political group claimed Proclamation would only prolong war?

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Democrats

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a draft ages?

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conscription
went from 18-35 yrs to N. 20-45, s. 17-50

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only african-american to rise above capt.

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Augustana

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massacre in which Confed killed over 200 african americans

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ft. pillow

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take that took part of individuals wage

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income tax

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set up to improve health conditions in camps

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US sanitary comission

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worse CONFEDERATE prison

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andersonville, georgia

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who won gettysburg?

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it was draw, but ,killed the south

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who won at Chancellorsville?

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South

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Union general at Chancellorsville

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Hooker

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In Gettysburg, Confederate soldiers led by who came looking for shoes?

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Hill

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leader of the Army of the Potamac

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Meade

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the high ground South of Gettysburg

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Cemetery Ridge

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who attacked Cemetery Ridge the second day of Gettysburg?

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Longstreet

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first speaker at ceremony at gettysgurg, gave long flowery Chancellorsvilleeech

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Everett

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commander of military division of Mississipi for Union

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Sherman

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Lincoln's political opponents who favored a harsher proposal for readmitting Confed states

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Radical repiblicans

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who was Lincolns opponent in the election of 1864?

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Fremont