Chaoter 11 Flashcards

1
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Slave states that didn’t secede

A

Border states

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2
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Not favoring either side

A

Neutral

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3
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A type of rule in which the military is in charge and citizens’ rights are suspended

A

Martial Law

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4
Q

A military action to prevent traffic from coming into an area or leaving it

A

Blockade

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5
Q

Warships covered with protective iron plates

A

Ironclads

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6
Q

Replaced McDowell after the union’s defeat at Bull Run, good at organizing, very cautious, had to retreat from Richmond

A

George McClellan

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7
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Military term for people wounded, killed, or missing in action

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Casualties

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8
Q

Union general who led most successful of armies, defeated the Confederates in the Battle of Shiloh, troops gained control of the Mississippi River under his command

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Ulysses S. Grant

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9
Q

Emancipation

A

To free enslaved people

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10
Q

An abolitionist newspaper publisher

A

Horace Greeley

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11
Q

A constitutional protection against unlawful i prison et

A

Habeas corpus

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12
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A system of required military service

A

Draft

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13
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A tax on the money people recieve

A

Income tax

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14
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General rise in prices

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Inflation

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15
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An attempt to capture a place by surrounding it with military forces and cutting it off until the people inside surrender

A

Siege

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16
Q

A union army general who believed in total war, and led union soldiers to capture Atlanta

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William Tecumseh Sherman

17
Q

All-out attacks aimed at destroying an enemy’s army, resources, and its peoples’ will to fight

A

Total war