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Fort Sumter |
Federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina; the confederate attack on the fort marked the start of the Civil War |
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Cotton Diplomacy |
the confederacy thought they were going to get help from Great Britain and France in the war because they have sold them cotton for over 250 years but when they said no the confederacy said they were going to stop selling them cotton and they said they didnt need there cotton because they get it from india |
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border states |
five slave states Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia which bordered a free state and aligned with the Union during the Americn Civil War |
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Abraham Lincoln |
was the 16th president he issued the Emancipation Proclamation and promoted the passage of the Thirteenth amendment |
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Jefferson Davis |
was the first and only president of the Confederated States of America |
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Anaconda Plan |
a plan proposed by General Winfield Scott; by enveloping the Confederacy by blockade at sea and control of the Mississippi River |
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blockade |
the isolating, closing off or surrounding of a place as a port harbor,or city by hostile ships or troops to prevent entrance or exit |
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Rebel Yell |
was a battle cry used by Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War they would use the yell during charges to intimidate the enemy and boost their own morale |
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Jonny Reb |
was the slang term for any confederate soldier , or the Confederate Army as a whole, during the war |
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Billy Yank |
was the slang term for the Union |
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Bull Run |
1st real battle, Confederate victory, Washingtonian spectators gather to watch battle, Gen. Jackson stands as Stonewall and turns tide of battle in favor of Confederates, realization that war is not going to be quick and easy for either side |
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hardtack |
a hard, saltless biscuit usually eaten as army rations |
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dysentery |
an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea |
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Army of Northern Virginia |
was the primary military force of the Confederate states |
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Army of the Potomac |
was the major Union Army |
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Robert E. Lee |
general of the Confederate forces during the Civil War(most celebrated) |
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Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson |
a Confederate general during the American Civil War a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee |
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George B. McClellan |
was a major general during the civil war, he organized the famous Army of the Potomac |
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Battle of Antietam |
was the first major batte in the American Civil War to take place on Northern soil |
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ironclads |
was the steam-propelled warship of the later 19th century protected by iron of steel armour plates |
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Monitor |
a type of turreted warship carrying heavy guns, having little draft, and lying down in the water |
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cavalry |
militry group trained to fight on horse back |
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Merrimac, Virginia |
they ship the confederate ships made to attack the Union |
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artillery |
large firearms/ a branch of an army armed with artillery |
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infantry |
an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot |
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Battle of Shiloh |
A civil war battle; resulted in greater Union control over the Mississippi River Valley. |
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turret |
a self-contained weapons platform housing guns and capable of rotation |
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Siege of Vicksburg |
1863 Union army's blockade of Vicksburg, Mississippi, that led the city to surrender during the Civil War |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869–1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. |
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David G.Farragut |
was the first senior officer of the U.S. Navy |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free |
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54th Massachusetts Infantry |
First African American soldiers recruited by the Union and this regiment earned honorable mentions in US military |
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Copperheads |
Democrats who opposed the civil war |
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habeas corpus |
a person can't be held in prison without first being charged with a crime |
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New York Draft Riots |
Anti-conscription violence that protested the unfair $300 draft evasion fee that made poor people have to fight the war |
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Clara Barton |
Nurse during the Civil War; started the American Red Cross |
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Andersonville |
Confederate war camp |
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Battle of Gettysburg |
Turning point of the War that made it clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and the South lost its chance to invade the North. |
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Pickett's Charge |
after Lee's 1st assault on the union soldiers at gettysburg faied, he had 15,000 soldiers advance for almost a mile before being killed by union soldiers. Only about 5,000 made it to their destination, most surrendered or retreated. |
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Gettysburg Address |
a 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War (November 19, 1963) at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of the Battle of Gettysburg |
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total war |
-sherman convinced grant to let him try a bold plan -plan was to let civilians feel the pain of war -union troops destroyed anything usefull to the south |
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William Tecumseh Sherman |
commander of union troops in Georgia and South Carolina |
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Mathew Brady |
famous photographer of the Civil War - brought the war to the people |
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March to the Sea |
Sherman's march to Savannah which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea |
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Sherman's neckties |
were railroad tracks destroyed by heating them until they were malleable and twisting them into loops resembling neckties, often around trees |
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Appomattox Court House |
famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant |
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Ford's Theatre |
the theatre where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated |
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John Wilkes Booth |
United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865) |
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conscription |
The forcing of people to join the army |
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enlistment |
when people are drafted into the army |
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Richmond, Virginia |
confederate capital |
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Washington, D.C. |
union capital |
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Harriet Tubman |
United States abolitionist born a slave on a plantation in Maryland and became a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad leading other slaves to freedom in the North (1820-1913) |
