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51 Cards in this Set
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Bull Run
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{manassas junction}
1861 Union suffers a crippling defeat and can't retreat because of traffic from picnicers |
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Stonewall Jackson
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Roery E. Lee's best general
TURNINGPOINT: dies at bull run-- shot by his own man |
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Robert E. Lee
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Confederate general
stays general for whole war better than northern generals |
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Grant
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Proves himself at battle of Shiloh
Takes over the UNion army and goes to Virginia "Grant the Butcher"- Throws untrained soldiers into battle **Chases Lee's army, confederates keep retreating finally Lee surrunders to Grant |
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Total War
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War against everything in society. Nothing off limits.
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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Union general- wages TOTAL WAR
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David Farragut
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"Damn those torpedos!"
Union Admiral Secures New Orleans Secures Vicksburg |
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Vicksburg
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Vicksburg Mississipi secured by the Union
Divides Confederacy in half |
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Gettysburg
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South tries to invade North --> Gettysburg
Union Gen. Reynolds dies Replaced by George G. Meade PICKETTS CHARGE: South goes for one last charge UNION VICTORY (TURNINGPOINT) |
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Antietam
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McClellan's plans are found but he does not move fast enough
--> BLOODIEST BATTLE OF THE DAY no one wins, but lee is prevented from entering maryland 23,000 casualties |
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Says that salves in rebelling states are free
-- Does not free any slaves, but keeps Britain from supporting confederacy (South) so they don't seem racist |
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Massachussets 54th
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Lead by Col. Robert Gould Shaw
Black Union soldiers |
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Manumission
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Freedom of slaves. Some joined the army.
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Pickett's Charge
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AT GETTYSBURG: Southern Gen. Pickett goes for one last charge but loses
turningpoint icon for the south |
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Election of 1864
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Lincoln's re-election uncertain b/c Republican party was not liked by everyone
McClellan runs against him in the Democratic side Lincoln decides to run with a Democratic Vice President- Andrew Johnson --> Lincoln wins election |
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Massachussets 54th
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Lead by Col. Robert Gould Shaw
Black Union soldiers |
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Manumission
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Freedom of slaves. Some joined the army.
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Pickett's Charge
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AT GETTYSBURG: Southern Gen. Pickett goes for one last charge but loses
turningpoint icon for the south |
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Election of 1864
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Lincoln's re-election uncertain b/c Republican party was not liked by everyone
McClellan runs against him in the Democratic side Lincoln decides to run with a Democratic Vice President- Andrew Johnson --> Lincoln wins election |
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Shiloh
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Battle where Grant proved himself
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90 Days War
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Union thinks the war will be short, but confederate generals are superior
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Anaconda Plan
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Lincoln's Union strategy
calls for a blockade of all union trade Southern ships try to sneak by (monitor vs merrimack) |
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Monitor Vs. Merrimack
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A standoff between an illegal Southern ship that was trying to avoid the Union's blockade and a Union ship
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Peninsula Campaign
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North plans to march South and seize Richmond- fails. Crushed at Bull Run
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George B. McClellen
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Appointed by Lincoln as commander and chief of the Army of the Potomac in 1861
inadequacy leads to battle of Antietam Fired Later seeks vengeance against Lincoln by running against him as the Democratic candidate |
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Copperheads
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Clement Vallandigham- Banished to Canada
>Anti war, pro union >mostly in the mid-west |
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NYC Draft Riots
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The Conscription Act of 1862- said that you could pay $300 and the government would find a substitution {favors the rich}
Irish compete with blacks for jobs --> 1863: Republicans, blacks and the wealthy are targeted in bloody riots |
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John Wilkes Booth
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Actor who shoots Lincoln at Ford theatre in 1865
Related plots to kill Seward and Johnson fail |
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Carpetbaggers
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Northerners who tried to profit from Southern destruction
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Scalawags
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Southerners who were former Unionists/ Whigs who helped the Radical Republicans in the South by accepting consequences of the war
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13th Amendment
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1865- Ends slavery
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14th Amendment
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1868- Mandates civil equality
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15th Amendment
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1870- Gives universal male suffrage
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Sharecropping
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Freedmen pay for farming materials, rent plot of land for owner & repay with crops, return hardly any money. Not much better than slavery.
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Literacy tests
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Virtually impossible tests that prevented uneducated freed slaves from voting, as well as poor whites
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Grandfather clause
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Circumvented literacy tests for whites, saying that if their grandfather could vote, they had suffrage
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Poll tax
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Payment to vote. Poor freed blacks could not afford it.
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Election of 1876
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Tilden vs. Hayes
Tilden wins popular vote but electoral committee is 7 dems, 7 reps + 1 independant COMPROMISE OF 1876: Hayes is allowed to become president, must agree to appease democrats by pulling troops out of the south- END OF RECONSTRUCTION |
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New South
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South Industrializes after the war
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Appomattox Courthouse
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The battle at which the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union Army under Grant
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Sherman's March
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Sherman and Union troops marched toward the Atlantic, making various union victories
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Battle of the Wilderness
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First battle between Grant and Lee-- Union continued offensive
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Little Round Top
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Battle at Gettysburg
Confederate army charged downhill but Union resisted |
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Fort Sumter
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First battle of the civil war-- Confederate army opened fire at Union troops
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Solid South
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Southern = Consistently Democratic
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What was the difference between Presidential and Radical Reconstruction? Strengths? Weaknesses?
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LINCOLN:
A just and lasting peace 10% plan (later 3/5 plan) Leniency towards South RADICAL REPUBLICANS: Sumner & Stevens believe that the South has forfeited constitutional rights and should be treated as a conquered territory |
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Why did the Civil War go on so long? Was the North an inevitable victor?
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NORTH: Higher population, bank deposits, railroads/ canals, factories.
SOUTH: Better Generals >James Longstreet >Robert E. Lee >Stonewall Jackson |
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Know the Emancipation Proclamation well. Why was it issued? How would opinions on it differ across the country?
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All persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people be then, thenceforward, and forever free, and the executive governments of the United States will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons".
Did not actually do anything. Keeps Britain from supporting the confederacy because it would make them look racist. |
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What fueled the New York City Draft Riots? Was it really about the draft?
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THE CONSCRIPTION ACT OF 1862- Favored rich because you could pay for a substitution
>Poor Irish could not afford the $300 because they were competing with blacks for jobs >Riots targeted Republicans (blamed for conscription), the wealthy (favored by conscription), and blacks (make Irish poor) |
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What are the Civil War songs?
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The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Battle Cry for Freedom Johnny Comes Marching Home Dixie |
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Why did Andrew Johnson get impeached? Did he get convicted?
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TENURE OF OFFICE ACT- Says president can't fire civil officers without the senate
Johnson violated this by firing Benjamin Wade Eager radicals impeach Johnson for this He misses conviction by one vote |