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21 Cards in this Set
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Second confiscation law passed by congress ordering the seizure of land from disloyal southernors and the emancipation of their slaves
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Confiscation act
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Decree announced by president abraham lincoln in september 1862 and formally issued on January 1, 1863, freeing slaves in all confederate states still in rebellion
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Emancipation Proclamation
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a shifting group of republican congressmen, usually a substantial minority, who favored the abolition of slavery from the beginning of the civil war and later advocated harsh treatment of the defeated south
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Radical Republicans
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Law passed by congress in may 1862 providing homesteads with 160 acres of free land in exchange for improving the land within five years of the grant
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Homestead Act
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Law passed by congress in july 1862 awarding proceeds from the sale of public lands to the states for the establishment of agricultural and mechanic colleges
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Land Grant college act
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A mostly Irish immigrant protest against conscription in new york city in july 1863 that escalated into class and racial warfare that had to be quelled by federal troops
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New York Draft Period
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constituitonal ammendment ratified in 1865 that freed all slaves throughout the united states
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thirteenth ammendment
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Advises Lincoln on his way to washington, warnin him of being shot
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Pinkerton
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built on an island, much confusion as to what they will do when they run out of supplies
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fort sumter
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movie about union farmers staying in kentucky, raided by yankees
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pharoahs army
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supreme court justice, hater of anti-slavery, ruler in the dred scott case
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taney
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slow leader of union army, thinks of his soldiers as his boys, wants to avoid death
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mclellan
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has exact location of lee's whereabouts
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lost order 54
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leader in confederate army, faster than mclellan, invades N., wrecked confederacy
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robert e. lee
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leader in lee's army, was said to never penetrate so far into the north again
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picket
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hardcore man of the war , shoots a bunch of yankees on his own, has two bullets removed without anesthetic
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Forrest
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school teacher, takes to nasty warfare, go door to door, ask what they supported shoot them.
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quantrill
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shot 30 union soldiers in the head
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bloody bill anderson
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becomes colonel does not panic on battlefield, good at manuevering
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grant
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second in command under grant, people thought he was nuts
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sherman
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nasty prisoner of war camp, union soldiers held
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andersonville
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