Civil War
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BrittanyLewis_1 on February 7, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Winfield Scott | created the "Anaconda Plan" |
| George McClellan | removed twice |
| Ulysses S. Grant | biggest success for Lincoln |
| "Stonewall Jackson" | Lee's right hand man until shot at Chancerville |
| George Pickett | led the failure - the charge at Gettysburg |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | eyes and ears of the army, Guerilla tactics |
| Jeb Stuart | calvary commander |
| Robert E. Lee | ... |
| The Battle of the Ironclads | First large scale use of iron clad ships |
| Result of Antietam | The Emancipation Proclamation |
| The Famous 54th MA | First black regiment in the union army |
| William Carney | first black to win the medal of honor |
| "The day you make soldiers of slaves is the beginning of the end of the revolution; and if slaves make good soldiers, then our whole theory of slavery is wrong" | Howell Cobb |
| Result of Vicksburg | The North controlled the entire Mississippi and the Anaconda plan worked, isolating the confederacy |
| Gettysburg | Second time that Lee went on the offense, Bloodiest battle in the war |
| "Rich man's war, Poor man's fight" | People who start wars rarely fight them |
| How much were substitutes in the North? | $300 |
| How much were substitutes in the South? | $5000 |
| Result of substitutes | NYC draft riots and troops pulled out of Gettysburg |
| What strategy did Sherman use in his march to the sea? | Scorched Earth |
| War democrats | joined republicans |
| Peace Democrats | copperheads |
| Why did the Democrats split? | Stephen Douglass's death who pledged his support to Lincoln |
| Who is Lincoln's biggest critic? | Secretary of Treasury Salmon P. Chase |
| Reasons why the Copperheads said Lincoln took way more power than he was supposed to | Draft, increased troops without a Congressional declaration of war, Supervised voting in the border states, Martial law in border states, Blockade |
| Importance of 1864 election | South's last hope was to get Lincoln out of office |
| Civil war causalities | 620,000 |
| Who assassinated Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
| Importance of Antietam | kept border states, Emancipation Proclamation |
| Importance of the Emancipation Proclamation | Kept South from getting foreign aid and allowed blacks to join the union army |
| Military Strategy of the North | Anaconda Plan |
| Anaconda Plan | block trade, take Mississippi (effective) |
| Military Strategy of the South | guerrilla war fare, defense, hit and run, drew north in (away from supply lines and bases), ware out the enemy, trench warfare |
| North's economy | industrial and successful because they can policies and an effective currency |
| South's economy | agricultural, overproduction of cotton, no manufacturing, no banks and economic policies, worthless confederate currency, no taxes (state rights) |
| Belle Boyd | Confederate: most famous spy of the war |
| Clara Barton | founder of the American Red Cross |
| Rose O'Neal Greenhow | Friendship with important generals to pass key info to the confederacy (she was a confederate) |
| Elizabeth Van Lew | union spy that took Grant troop movement and other info, called crazy Beth |
| Harriet Tubman | cook, spy, and soldier for the union |
| Dorthea Dix | created the first mental hospitals "The Dragon" |
| What was the South's greatest weakness and the North's greatest strength? | Economy |
| Importance of Chancellorsville | Lee's greatest victory, Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own soldier - costliest victory of the south |
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