5621386502 | William Seward | was Lincoln's enemy; Lincoln put him in his cabinet to make friends with him; became secretary of state | 0 | |
5621386503 | 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 | |
5621386504 | Winfield Scott | first union commander, forced to retire because he was so old; created anaconda plan | 2 | |
5621386505 | submissionists | nickname to white southerners who wanted to side with the north | 3 | |
5621386506 | Richmond, VA | ends up to be the captial of the Confederacy | 4 | |
5621386507 | Butternut Region | southern part of the north, sympathetic to the south | 5 | |
5621386508 | Billy Yank | northern soldier | 6 | |
5621386509 | Johnny Reb | southern soldier | 7 | |
5621386510 | Sen. John Crittenden | from KY; replaced Henry Clay; his sons split between north and south and he came up with the compromise to bring back Missouri Compromise at 36-30 line, Lincoln did not like this idea | 8 | |
5621386511 | King Wheat and King Corn | Europe began to need food instead of cotton; the North had what they needed | 9 | |
5621386512 | Trent Affair | 1861; a Union warship stopped a British mailship and demanded for 2 confederate diplomats bound for Europe; caused an uproar and almost caused the British to side with the south | 10 | |
5621386513 | 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 | 11 | |
5621386514 | Laird Rams | British iron ships that were going to be sold to the Confederacy, they ended up not selling them because the north threatened to bring Britain into the war | 12 | |
5621386515 | Maximillian | Frenchman who took over Mexico in 1863, ignored Monroe Doctrine, Mexico overthrew him | 13 | |
5621386516 | Gov. Joseph Brown | Opposed Jefferson Davis, put Georgia first | 14 | |
5621386517 | 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 | 15 | |
5621386518 | $300 men | rich men who didn't want to fight could pay money to have these poorer men fight for them | 16 | |
5621386519 | Morrill Act | highest tariff in history, no southerners were in congress to keep it lower | 17 | |
5621386520 | Greenbacks | money that's not worth i, $450 million was not backed up and this unvalueable paper money was floating around America | 18 | |
5621386521 | Jay Cooke | sold government war bonds | 19 | |
5621386522 | shoddy millionaires | people in the north who made cheap war materials for more money | 20 | |
5621386523 | Elizabeth Blackwell | 1st female physician who started the U.S. Sanitary commission. | 21 | |
5621386524 | Clara Barton | most famous nurse from Civil War; will alter start the Red Cross | 22 | |
5621386525 | Dorothea Dix | head nurse of all nurses in Union Army | 23 | |
5621386526 | Sally Tompkins | most famous southern nurse, became a Captain in Confederate Army | 24 | |
5621386527 | Charles Francis Adams | Union ambassador in England; kept England from helping the South | 25 |
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