History Chp 16
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23 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fort Sumter | Fort in Charlestown Harbor. Confederates fired on it and started the civil war. |
| Border States | Slave states that remained loyal to the union. |
| Bull Run | First battle of the civil war. Two armies met and union ended up running away in confusion. |
| Homestead Act | 1862 act which granted a quarter section of the public domain free to any settler who lived on the land for at least five years and improved it. |
| Morrill Land Grant Act | Gave states free federal land with the purpose of selling it and turning it into universities. |
| Legal Tender Act | Act creating a national currency. |
| Jefferson Davis | President of confederacy |
| Peninsular Campaign | Union offensive led by McClellan with the objective of capturing Richmond. McClella |
| Vicksburg | Last confederate stronghold on the Mississippi river. Cut confederacy in half |
| Anaconda Plan | North's strategy of squeezing south into submission. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | The decree announced by Lincoln that freed slaves in all Confederate states still in rebellion. It was an attempt to satisfy both abolitionists and conservatives. |
| Copperheads | A term Republicans applied to Northern war dissenters and those suspected of aiding the Confederate cause during the Civil War. Northern anti-war democrats. |
| New York Draft Riots | Riots by irish immigrants in new York city because poor people were fighting in the rich man's war. |
| Robert E. Lee | Great southern general. |
| Election of 1860 | election of Lincoln. Event that promised south it could secede |
| George McClellan | one of the first union commanders. Slow to fight and was replaced by lincoln |
| Gettysburg | Battle that was a big confederate loss. Last time south invaded north. Major turning point in civil war. |
| March to the Sea | Marched from Atlanta to savannah. Destroyed everything in its path. |
| King Cotton Diplomacy | The south's hope that ffrance and England would side with them out of the need for a steady supply of cotton. |
| Trent Affair | A union ship stopped a british ship and pulled off two confederate diplomats. |
| Antietam | Union victory. Led to issue of EP. Bloodiest one day battle. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Commander of East. President. |
| William T. Sherman | Captured Atlanta and led march to the sea |
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