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Chapter 11 Vocab Flashcards

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Fort Sumter

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fort located in Charleston, South Carolina

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Major Anderson

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commander of Union army in Fort Sumter

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Anaconda Plan

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blockade, capture Richmond, Virginia, and split south in half via the Mississippi

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Bull Run

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first major bloodshed battle with union general McDowell against Stonewall Jackson (southern victory)

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Stonewall Jackson

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confederate general

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George McClellan

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union general good at training soldiers but never liked to use army

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Ulysses S. Grant

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union general pretty much great in army but failed at life hahaha
Unconditional Surrender Grant when he captured forts Henry and Donelson

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Shiloh

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Rebels shot Union while making coffee and Grant reorganized army and counterattacked at dawn and won
now generals had to send out scouts and build fortifications

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David G. Farragut

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union commander in charge of capturing New Orleans and did along with other major forts which meant the Anaconda plan split was working

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Monitor and Merrimack

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ironclad ships with the northern Monitor and southern Merrimack draw. but the south and destroyed two north wooden ships and sent another fleeing

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Robert E. Lee

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rebel general and fought against McClellan in the seven days battles and scared union even though rebels were hurt more so McClellan moved away to sea

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Antietam

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bloodiest single day in American history where McClellan found rebel papers wrapped in cigar and attacked Lee but was scared to pursue after he won so Lincoln later fired him cause of how cautious he was

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William Yancey

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dude who went and asked Britain to help south

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James Mason and John Slidell

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confederate diplomats sent to try and gain support from Britain and France a second time and were arrested in the Trent Affair

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Charles Wilkes

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arrested the two men in the Trent Affair

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Horace Greeley

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urged Lincoln to make war to free slaves not to keep union together but Lincoln disagreed but issued Emancipation Proclimation

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Emancipation Proclimation

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freed slaves in confederate areas

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Reverend Henry M. Turner

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African that talked about Emancipation Proclamation’s significance

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habeus corpus

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a court order making authorities bring a person before court to tell why they are being jailed, not to give them a hearing (so suspicious peeps could be innocent but taken)

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copperheads

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northern democrats who wanted peace with the south

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Clement Vallandigham

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a copperhead tried and convicted of urging union soldiers to desert

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conscription

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a draft that both rebels and the union used

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draft riot

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angry mobs that complained about having to fight a war for blacks just so they could steal their jobs

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Mary Chesnut

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southerners wife who wrote diary about common southern life

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Fort Pillow

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pretty much slaughter of Africans and some whites

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income tax

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Congress needed citizens to help pay for the war so took a percentage of their income

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Dorothea Dix

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first superintendent of women nurses

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Clara Barton

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nurse on the front lines that helped people recognize sanitation

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Andersonville

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worst confederate prison with 34 ft per man and no shelter outside of sticks and nasty poop stream where 1/3 of people died

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Frank Haskell

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union officer who was present at battle of gettysberg

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Gettysberg

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turning point in the war to union’s favor and crippled Lee’s forces so he couldn’t ever invade north again and took place over three days

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Chancellorsville, Virgina

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Lee beat Hooker and caused union to retreat and then Stonewall Jackson was killed by pneumonia after friendly fire

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Vicksburg

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US Grant held siege to this fort and after it was captured plus Gettysburg fell after Pickets battle or whatever it was

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Gettysburg Address

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what Lincoln said and remade America sorta thang

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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man appointed by Grant to be commander of the military division of the Mississippi and he believed in total war

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