Quizlet US History - Chapter 14 (places and events)

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  1. 54th Massachusetts Infantry: the first all-black army unit that saw combat during the Civil War
  2. Antietam: bloodiest battle of any US war; 4,800 dead and 18,500 wounded
  3. Appomattox Court House: place where Lee surrendered to Grant, ending the war after four years
  4. Crittenden Plan: proposed making slavery protected under the Constitution
  5. Draft Riots: reaction to the enrollment act; also a racist reaction by some
  6. Enrollment Act: called for the conscription of US citizens
  7. Fort Sumpter: in Charleston, SC; the first Southern attack occurred here
  8. Gettysburg: the US stops the Confederate's invasion of the North
  9. Manassas: first battle of the war; the South pushed the Union Army back to DC
  10. Sherman's March to the Sea: destroyed farms, towns, and crops; the "hard hand of war" was brought to the South
  11. US Sanitary Commission: founded to provide adequate health care and stop the spread of disease
  12. Vicksburg: Grant captures the Mississippi River for the Union
  13. copperheads: Democrats who advocated peace in the election of 1864
  14. habeas corpus: Lincoln suspends this right, jailing all dissenters at the start of the war
  15. legal tender: a piece of paper that has value guaranteed by the government; cash!
  16. the Emancipation Proclamation: frees all slaves in the South