US History – Chapter 11 – Vocabulary – Flashcards
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Blockade
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The south had no navy this making them vulnerable to a blockade
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Robert E Lee
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Left US Army to become General of Confederate States
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Anaconda Plan
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Union would blockade southern parts, starving the South of supplies and income
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Border States
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States that allowed slavery but remained in the Union
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Stonewall Jackson
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General Thomas J Jackson's nickname after he sent the Union scrambling
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George B. Mcllelan
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Lead Battle of Bull Run
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Ulysses S Grant
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Captured Fort Henry and Donelson
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Shiloh
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1862 war battle where nearly 25,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed
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Antietam
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The South's first advancement into the North
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Changed the war's status to fighting for their nation to fighting for human freedom
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54th Massachusetts Regiment
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First infantry consisting of black soldiers in the North
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Income Tax
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Tax on all income, taxes raised as war went on
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Homestead Act
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Made western farmland available to those who could maintain it
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Conscription
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Another term for the draft, instituted to meet need for fresh troops
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Copperheads
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Peaceful democrats that opposed the war
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Habeas Corpus
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Protects a person from being thrown in jail for no reason
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Clara Burton
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Salvaged supplies to aid Union troops with permission of Union. Stayed a safe distance away from the fighting. Started the Red Cross
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Siege
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Military tactic in which an army surrounds, bombards, cuts off all supplies to an enemy position in order to force it to surrender
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Siege of Wicksburg
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On July 4, 1863, the Siege of Wicksburg was over. The confederacy was then split into two.
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Lasted for many days. It was the largest battle of the civil war lasting from July 1-3, 1863
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General George Pickett
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Worked with General Lee of the Confederates. Failure of Pickett's charge
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Gettysburg Address
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World famous speech given by Lincoln at the dedication of the National Cemetery of Gettysburg, PA
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Total war
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Striking civilian as well as military targets. Purpose was to weaken an enemy's army + economy that supports them + the overall will of the people to fight
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General William Tecumseh Sherman
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Implemented the Union's total-war strategy
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13th Amendment
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A constitutional amendment in 1865 that abolished slavery
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Matthew Brady
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Journalist that took pictures of the people and conditions of the civil war
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The Land Grant College Act
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Gave money from the sale of public lands to states for the establishment of universities that taught "agricultural and mechanical arts"
