5624785854 | William Seward | was Lincoln's enemy; Lincoln put him in his cabinet to make friends with him; became secretary of state | 0 | |
5624785855 | Fort Sumter | 1st shots of the war on April 12, 1861; the north surrendered after 36 hours; no one was killed in this battle | 1 | |
5624785857 | submissionists | nickname to white southerners who wanted to side with the north | 2 | |
5624785858 | Richmond, VA | ends up to be the captial of the Confederacy | 3 | |
5624785859 | Butternut Region | southern part of the north, sympathetic to the south | 4 | |
5624785860 | Billy Yank | northern soldier | 5 | |
5624785861 | Johnny Reb | southern soldier | 6 | |
5624785863 | King Wheat and King Corn | Europe began to need food instead of cotton; the North had what they needed | 7 | |
5624785865 | Alabama | ship that escaped to the Portuguese Azores and got weapons; Britain was the chief naval base for the Condeferacy, sunk northern ships, made in Britain, and sunk in France | 8 | |
5624785867 | Maximillian | Frenchman who took over Mexico in 1863, ignored Monroe Doctrine, Mexico overthrew him | 9 | |
5624785869 | Limits on civil liberties | 1. Proclaimed blockade of southern ports. 2. Ordered to increase army 3. Spent unapproved money on weapons 4. Suspended Habeus Corpus 5. Supervised Voting 6. Suspended newspaper | 10 | |
5624785870 | $300 men | rich men who didn't want to fight could pay money to have these poorer men fight for them | 11 | |
5624785871 | Morrill Act | highest tariff in history, no southerners were in congress to keep it lower | 12 | |
5624785872 | Greenbacks | money that's not worth i, $450 million was not backed up and this unvalueable paper money was floating around America | 13 | |
5624785874 | shoddy millionaires | people in the north who made cheap war materials for more money | 14 | |
5624785875 | Elizabeth Blackwell | 1st female physician who started the U.S. Sanitary commission. | 15 | |
5624785876 | Clara Barton | most famous nurse from Civil War; will alter start the Red Cross | 16 | |
5624785877 | Dorothea Dix | head nurse of all nurses in Union Army | 17 | |
5624785878 | Sally Tompkins | most famous southern nurse, became a Captain in Confederate Army | 18 | |
5624785879 | Charles Francis Adams | Union ambassador in England; kept England from helping the South | 19 | |
5684163297 | arbitration | The settling of disputes (especially labor disputes) between two parties by an impartial third party, whose decision the contending parties agree to accept. | 20 | |
5684175752 | profiteer | make or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit, especially illegally or in a black market. | 21 | |
5684181897 | Edwin Stanton | secretary of war during civil war who was lenient to the south during reconstruction | 22 | |
5684186864 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | 23 | |
5684186865 | Trent Affair | U.S. navy illegally captured two Confederate diplomats from a British ship; the UK protested | 24 | |
5684191398 | Draft Riots | class tensions between rich and poor because only some could dodge the draft | 25 | |
5684194484 | Napoleon III | emperor of France 1852-1870 with sympathies to the South | 26 | |
5684199043 | Coal oil Johnnies | pioneers pushing westward for oil plutocracy | 27 | |
5684199044 | wage slaves | people working for unfair compensation in factories | 28 | |
5684203261 | cotton famine | shortage of cotton due to Union blockade | 29 | |
5684206065 | invasions of canada | Confederates attempted to set up base in Canada due to strategic location??? | 30 | |
5684211194 | writ of habeas corpus | Lincoln suspended this, allowing holding of people in jail without trial, increased size of military, and shut down newspapers in the capital that were critical of the government | 31 | |
5684217225 | bounty brokers/jumpers | people who would persuade men to enlist by giving a sum of money/ attempted to make profit off of conscription | 32 | |
5684217226 | 59ers | gold seekers in western kansas and southwestern nebraska | 33 | |
5684221580 | Homestead Act of 1862 | Offered large tracts of land at low prices to encourage westward settlement | 34 | |
5684226602 | government girls | civil war version of rosie the riveter | 35 | |
5684226603 | plutocracy | government of the wealthy | 36 |
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