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36 Cards in this Set
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Shiloh |
Tennessee battle that resulted in 25,000 Union and confederate casualties |
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Blockade |
Isolation of a port by hostile forces |
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Border state |
Union state that allowed slavery |
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Stonewall Jackson |
General who won the battle of bull run/ battle of Manassas |
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Robert E Lee |
former us army general who led the confederate troops |
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Anaconda plan |
Union strategy to have control of confederate ports and the Mississippi River |
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Which population was bigger |
The north |
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What was a geographical advantage the south had over the north |
The south was fighting on its own territory |
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Contraband |
Captured war |
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Emancipation Proclamation |
Freed all people enslaved in states still in rebellion against the union on January 1 1863 |
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Militia act |
Congress passed to act to ensure that black soldiers were accepted for military service |
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Antietam |
The bloodiest single day of fighting in the civil war |
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They knew it wouldn't free all enslaved people |
Why were abolishing against the emancipation proclamation |
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Served as spies and scouts |
How did African Americans help Union forces |
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Served as spies and scouts |
How did African Americans help Union forces |
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Habeas corpus |
A right that dates a person can be detained without being charged for a specific crime |
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Copperhead |
Person from the north who wanted to end the civil war |
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Gettysburg |
The battle that was the turning point of the war |
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Vickburg |
the capturing of the confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River by the union |
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Vickburg |
the capturing of the confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River by the union |
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George Pickett |
The last failed confederate attack in the battle of Gettysburg was lead by whom |
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William Sherman |
The union general that led an aggressive campaign that destroyed most of Georgia |
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William Sherman |
The union general that led an aggressive campaign that destroyed most of Georgia |
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John Wilkes booth |
Fired the shot that killed Lincoln |
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Thirteenth anebdment |
Outlawed slavery |
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Thirteenth anebdment |
Outlawed slavery |
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Appomattox court house |
Where did Lee finally surrender |
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Thirteenth anebdment |
Outlawed slavery |
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Appomattox court house |
Where did Lee finally surrender |
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Clara burton |
Started red cross |
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Ulysses S. grant |
Union general that fought at the battle of Shiloh |
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Ulysses S. grant |
Union general that fought at the battle of Shiloh |
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Gettysburg address |
Speech made by Lincoln dedicating a national cemetery to Gettysburg |
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Greenback |
The act congress passed that created national currency |
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Martial law |
Emergency rule by military authorities |
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McClellan |
The man running against Lincoln in the election; want to end war |