| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Income Tax | Fundraising measure by north that entailed 3% for anyone making over $100 |
| Greenbacks | Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war (plural) |
| Bond | Represents a loan to government (pays interest). Fundraising technique employed by Union and Confederates |
| National Banking System | Money system for the Union that would last until 1913 |
| Morill Tariff | Fundraising technique for the North involving increased tariffs |
| Bluebacks | Term for confederate paper money |
| Volunteers | Union has a lot of these at the start, and then need draft. South needs draft from start. |
| New York Draft Riots | Anti-conscription violence that protested the unfair $300 draft evasion fee that made poor people have to fight the war |
| Civil War | Armed conflict over the issue of slavery |
| First Battle of Bull Run | First "real" battle of the Civil War, it was expected by Union officials to be short but ended up a Confederate victory |
| Monitor v. Merrimac | Battle between two ironclad ships, lasts five days and has no winner but changes the paradigm of naval warfare |
| Peninsula Campaign | Botched Union attempt to capture the capital Richmond by circumventing the Confederate army by sea. |
| Second Battle of Bull Run | Culmination of offensive campaign by Robert E. Lee, overwhelming victory although Union army weathers it well |
| Battle of Antietam | Union army routes Lee's offensive strike, allows Lincoln to give emancipation proclamation |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Declaration by Lincoln after Antietam declaring all slaves in rebelling states to be free |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | Major union loss under the hands of Burnside |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | Wilderness, Confederate win by Lee uses Stonewall Jackson to friendly fire |
| Battle of Gettysburg | Turning point of war, Union victory ends with Pickett's charge |
| Battle of Vicksburg | Union gains control of Mississippi, Grant takes lead, total war begins |
| Sherman's March to the Sea | 1864--1865 total destruction campaign from Geogia to the coast |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Lee's forces cornered, surrender of Confederacy |
| Copperheads | Democrats who opposed the civil war |
| Valandingham | Ringleader of the copperheads, claimed North did not need south |
| Trent Affair | Foreign event involving Union seizure of British ship with Confederate diplomats. |
| Maximilian | French viceroy who takes over Mexico during Civil War due to fact that America cannot enforce monroe doctrine |
| Alabama | High-tech ship the confederates purchased from Britain |
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