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| 549368936 | Fort Sumter (April 1861) | Site of the first shots fired in the Civil War | |
| 549368937 | Richmond, Va. | Confederate capital | |
| 549368938 | Border states | States bordering the North: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. They were slave states, but did not secede. | |
| 549368939 | North's war aims | Yes, this will possibly be an essay | |
| 549368940 | Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force | |
| 549368941 | "Stonewall" Jackson | general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863) | |
| 549368942 | Ulysses S. Grant | an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War. | |
| 549368943 | Trent Affair (1861) | Diplomatic row that threatened to bring the British into the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy, after a Union warship stopped a British steamer and arrested two Confederate diplomats on board. | |
| 549368944 | The Alabama | A Confederate ship built in Britain and armed after it left port so it was not considered a warship when it left port. Displayed the main foreign intervention in the war, and because it never landed in a Confederate port it yielded Britain the naval base of the Confederacy. | |
| 549368945 | The "Laird rams" | Ironclad warships that were kept out of Confederate hands by Minister Adams's stern protests to the British government. | |
| 549368946 | Dominion of Canada (1867) | Unified Canadian government created by Britain to bolster Canadians against potential attacks or overtures from the United States. | |
| 549368947 | Maximilian/Mexico (1863) | Maximilian was instructed by Napoleon III in 1864 to establish a French empire in Mexico, but the Mexicans were hostile to Maximilian and loyal to President Juárez. The United States invoked the Monroe Doctrine as justification for their demand for French nonintervention. Although the French drove Juárez's army from the capital, Maximilian's empire disintegrated when French troops withdrew. | |
| 549368948 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | |
| 549368949 | Blockade | a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | |
| 549368950 | Writ of Habeas Corpus | A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody. | |
| 549368951 | Conscription Law (1863) | Made all men ages 20-45 eligible for military service, but service could be avoided by paying $300 or finding a substitute. Led to rioting in New York City and raised much needed revenue for the Union. | |
| 549368952 | "Three-hundred dollar men" | nickname given to men rich enough to avoid the draft | |
| 549368953 | Draft riots | were a series of violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War | |
| 549368954 | Income tax | a personal tax levied on annual income | |
| 549368955 | Morrill Tariff Act (1861) | a major protectionist tariff bill instituted in the US. It was signed into law by Democratic president, Buchanan. The tax is significant for severely altering American commercial policy after a period of relative free trade to several decades of heavy protection. It replaced the Tariff of 1857. It was a contentious issue that fueled sectional disputes on the eve of the Civil War. | |
| 549368956 | "Greenbacks" | Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war | |
| 549368957 | War bonds (Jay Cooke & Co.) | Short-term loans that individual citizens made to the government that financed two-thirds of the war's cost. | |
| 549368958 | National Banking System (1863) | Network of member banks that could issue currency against purchased government bonds. Created during the Civil War to establish a stable national currency and stimulate the sale of war bonds. | |
| 549368959 | Homestead Act of 1862 | Act that allowed a settler to acquire as much as 160 acres of land by living on it for 5 years, improving it, and paying a nominal fee of about $30 - instead of public land being sold primarily for revenue, it was now being given away to encourage a rapid filling of empty spaces and to provide a stimulus to the family farm, turned out to be a cruel hoax because the land given to the settlers usually had terrible soil and the weather included no precipitation, many farms were repo'd or failed until "dry farming" took root on the plains , then wheat, then massive irrigation projects | |
| 549368960 | U.S. Sanitary Commission | not only organized women to serve at the front, it also funneled medicine and supplies to badly overtaxed hospitals during the Civil War. It also helped spread ideas about the importance of sanitary conditions in hospitals and clinics and probably contributed to the relative decline of disease in the war. |
