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50 Cards in this Set
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Nat Turner
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Pastor who led one of the most serious slave revolts
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Clara Barton
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Union Nurse - Started American Red Cross
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Fort Sumter – 1861
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Anderson vs. Beauregard – CSA won, started civil war
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First Manassas (Bull Run) – 1861
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McDowell vs. Beauregard/ Jackson – CSA won, 1st Battle
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Shiloh – 1862
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Grant/Sherman vs. Johnston/ Beauregard – Union won
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Second Manassas (Bull Run)
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Pope vs. Jackson – CSA won
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Antietam – 1862
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McClellan vs. Lee - Union won, bloodiest day in U.S. history
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Fredericksburg – 1862
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Burnside vs. Lee – CSA won
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Chancellorsville – 1863
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Hooker vs. Lee/Jackson – CSA won, considered Lee’s greatest
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Chickamauga – 1863
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Rosecrans vs. Bragg – CSA won, Largest battle in West
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Chattanooga – 1863
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Grant vs. Bragg – Union won
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Stones River (Murfreesboro) – 1863
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Rosecrans vs. Bragg – Union won
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Vicksburg – 1863
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Grant vs. Johnston – Union won, split Confederacy in half
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Who are the Copperheads and what was their impact?
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Northerners who were peace democrats, insulting term
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Who were Carpetbaggers?
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Northerners who exploited the South for profit, unwelcome visitors,
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Who are scalawags?
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White southerners who helped carpetbaggers
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What is the significance of Wirz (Andersonville POW Camp, Georgia)
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Wirz is commander of a prison camp (Andersonville) where Prisoners were treated cruelly, he shot prisoners without warning for crossing a stockade line, 10,000 Northern soldiers died from neglect, he was the only confederate soldier executed by the North
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What was the role of Custer at Appomattox Station?
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Drove off two confederate divisions with one division and stole supply train and artillery
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What are the total estimated casualties in the Civil War?
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620,000- 700,000
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Where was the bloodiest single day?
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Antitem, sept 17, 1862, casualties 26,134
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What was the last confederate victory?
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Swahona Gap
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Lee’s Surrender took place here
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Appamatox Courthouse
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This battle divided the South
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Battle of Vicksburg
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Frederick Douglass
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Abolitionist and writer who led the attack on slavery in the mid 1800s by describing his own enslavement
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William Lloyd Garrison
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Abolitionist and editor of the newspaper “The Liberator”
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Angelina and Sarah Grimke
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Southern abolitionists who had seen the evils of slavery and spoke out against it
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Underground Railroad
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a system of secret routes that escaping slaves followed to freedom
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Levi and Catherine Coffin
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Quakers from Indiana who helped slaves escape by hiding them in their house
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Harriet Tubman
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Abolitionist and underground railroad conductor and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War
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Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Spoke for the rights of women at a convention they held in Seneca Falls NY
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Sojourner Truth
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Slave who spoke out about the evils of slavery. She gave speeches in support or abolition and women's rights
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Which Union leader employed psychological warfare?
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Sherman, burning everything, stole possessions, killed livestock
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What did Davis do after Richmond was taken?
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Evacuated to Danville (new confederate capitol), packed his family,
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Who were 'Sherman's Sentinels'?
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Chimneys of burned out houses
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What was 'The Great BBQ'?
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Economic term describing corruption following the war
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Doctrine of Nullification
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doctrine that States can opt out of federal laws (Calhoun) - SC threatened to secede over a tariff
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What were Europe's actions (or lack thereof) during the war?
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Supply of war ships and materials to the confederacy
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Could Europe do without cotton from the south?
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Yes. Britain imported cotton from India
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How did each side pay for the war?
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taxes
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Underground Railroad?
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Loosely organized system organized by both whites and free blacks to help escaped slaves flee to Canada or safe areas of free states
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What was the USS Merrimack was later named?
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CSS Virginia
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Who designed the USS Monitor?
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Swedish Engineer John Ericson
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What is the significance of Robert Shaw and 54th Massachusetts Infantry?
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First Civil War Black Unit - he motivated his troops to fight
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What was used to quickly transport soldiers to battles?
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Trains
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What is the Command of Army Act?
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Required President Johnson to issue all military orders through the General of the Army (Grant)
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What was the motto of the Copperheads?
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“the constitution as it is and the Union as it was”
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Was Antietam was considered a narrow Union or Confederate victory?
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Union
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What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
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Part of the 1850 compromise - all runaway slaves be brought back to masters
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United States Sanitary Commission
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provided battlefield relief and coordinated local supply efforts
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Clement Vallandigham
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Ohio Unionist Copperhead - anti war - pro confederate
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