Unit 5 Flashcards
(27 cards)
laws that severely restricted African Americans’ lives
black codes
a soldier that commanded the Confederate army
Robert E. Lee
This was a strategy created by Union General Winfield Scott in 1861. It called for strangling the Southern Confederacy, much like an Anaconda. It was never officially adopted by the Union government.
Anaconda plan
union nurse that often cared for the sick and wounded at the front lines. After her courage under fire at Antietam, a surgeon described her as the “angel of the battlefield.”
Clara Barton
a court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed
habeas corpus
which states that no one can be kept from voting because of “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” The amendment would also affect Northern states, many of which at this time barred African Americans from voting.
15th Amendment
a draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army.
Conscription
The U.S. Constitution now stated that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”
13th Amendment
a 26 year old actor and southern sympathizer who assassinated Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
a general for the Union during the Civil War
George McClellan
the 18th president of the United States.
Ulysses S. Grant
commander of the military division of the mississippi.
William Sherman
a town in Georgia where the worst confederate prison was.
Andersonville
which provided a constitutional basis for the Civil Rights Act.
14th Amendment
an American politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, the 23rd U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil
Jefferson Davis
a sea fort in Charleston, South Carolina, notable for two battles of the American Civil War
Fort Sumter
also known as First Manassas, was fought on July 21, 1861 in Prince William County, Virginia, near the city of Manassas, not far from Washington, D.C. It was the first major battle of the American Civil War
Battle of Bull Run
also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee
Battle of Shiloh
On September 17, 1862, Generals Robert E. Lee and George McClellan faced off near Antietam creek in Sharpsburg, Maryland, in the the first battle of the American Civil War to be fought on northern soil
Antietam
fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863.
Gettysburg
In May and June of 1863, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s armies converged on Vicksburg, investing the city and entrapping a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John Pemberton.
Vicksburg
What were the strengths of the North before the war began?
industrial advantage, railroads, firearms, shoes
What were the strengths of the South before the war began?
production of cotton, trained officers, gunpowder mills
Why did Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
If the slaves were free then the British would be less likely to help the south in battle
