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| 15340930430 | Crittenden Compromise | 1860 - attempt to prevent Civil War by Senator Crittenden - offered a Constitutional amendment recognizing slavery in the territories south of the 36º30' line, noninterference by Congress with existing slavery, and compensation to the owners of fugitive slaves - defeated by Republicans | 0 | |
| 15340930431 | total war | A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields. | 1 | |
| 15340930432 | draft | A law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military | 2 | |
| 15340930433 | habeas corpus | Constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment | 3 | |
| 15340930434 | King cotton | The leading American export and a crucial staple of the nineteenth-century economy | 4 | |
| 15340930435 | greenbacks | Name for Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war (plural) | 5 | |
| 15340930436 | "contrabands" | Escaped slaves | 6 | |
| 15340930437 | Radical Republicans | After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South. | 7 | |
| 15340930438 | Emancipation Proclamation | (AL) , Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free | 8 | |
| 15340930439 | scorched-earth campaign | A campaign in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia by Union general Philip H. Sheridan's troops. The troops destroyed grain, barns, and other useful resources to punish farmers who had aided Confederate raiders. | 9 | |
| 15340930440 | War and Peace Democrats | Members of the Democratic Party that split into two camps over war policy during the Civil War. War Democrats vowed to continue fighting until the rebellion ended, while Peace Democrats called for a constitutional convention to negotiate a peace settlement. | 10 | |
| 15340930441 | "hard war" | Shermans tactic of this is "when one nation is at war with another, all the people of one are enemies of the other" | 11 | |
| 15340930442 | March to the Sea | Sherman's march from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, Georgia which cut off confederate supplies received by the sea. They wanted to destroy the Southern economy and morale, leading to Southern surrender. | 12 | |
| 15340930443 | Abraham Lincoln | 16th President of the United States saved the Union during the Civil War and emancipated the slaves; was assassinated by Booth (1809-1865) | 13 | |
| 15340930444 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America | 14 | |
| 15340930445 | Robert E. Lee | Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force | 15 | |
| 15340930446 | George McClellan | A general for northern command of the Army of the Potomac in 1861; nicknamed "Tardy George" because of his failure to move troops to Richmond; lost battle vs. General Lee near the Chesapeake Bay; Lincoln fired him twice. | 16 | |
| 15340930447 | 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. | 17 | |
| 15340930448 | William T. Sherman | general whose march to sea caused destruction to the south | 18 | |
| 15341124822 | 1st Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) | July 21, 1861. Va. (outside of D.C.) People watched battle. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson: Confederate general, held his ground and stood in battle like a "stone wall." Union retreated. Confederate victory. Showed that both sides needed training and war would be long and bloody | 19 | |
| 15341138969 | Peninsula Campaign (1862) | Union *General George McClellan*'s failed effort to seize Richmond, the Confederate Capital; Confederate victory made possible by the leadership of *General Robert E. Lee*. | 20 | |
| 15341171318 | Battle of Antietam (1862) | Single bloodiest day of the American Civil War; Union victory that turned back a Confederate invasion of the North. *Historical Significance:* Allowed Lincoln to issue the *Emancipation Proclamation* proclaiming the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion and shifting the war objectives of the North. | 21 | |
| 15341182891 | Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) | Union general = Ambrose "side burns" Burnside who replaced McClellan, Confed. general = Lee, Was a "mud march", Burnside wanted to launch a full assault on Lee to surprise him but it didn't work , Confed. victory and Lincoln fires Burnside! | 22 | |
| 15341203768 | Battle of Shiloh (April 1862) | Bloody Civil War battle on the Tennessee-Mississippi border that resulted in the deaths of more than 23,000 soldiers and ended in a marginal Union victory. | 23 | |
| 15341212411 | Battle of Vicksburg (1863) | A protracted battle in northern Mississippi in which Union forces under Ulysses Grant besieged the last major Confederate fortress on the Mississippi River, forcing the inhabitants into starvation and then submission and giving control of the Mississippi River to the Union. | 24 | |
| 15341223445 | Battle of Gettysburg (1863) | Largest and bloodiest battle of the American Civil War; Union victory; considered - when coupled with *General Ulysses S. Grant*'s victory in Vicksburg the next day - to be the turning point of the war. *Historical Significance:* Lincoln used the dedication ceremony for the Gettysburg National Cemetery to honor the fallen Union soldiers and redefine the purpose of the war in his historic *Gettysburg Address*. | 25 |
