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| 620699138 | Fort Sumter | first shots fired here to start the Civil War, sits at the mouth of the Charleston Harbor | |
| 620699139 | PGT Beauregard | brought in to control Fort Sumter, put in command; schooled at West Point | |
| 620699140 | Robert Anderson | runs Fort Sumter, does not want to fight | |
| 620699141 | Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas | states that secede after the beginning of the Civil War | |
| 620699142 | Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri | border states that stay a part of the Union | |
| 620699143 | Maryland | state that arrested anyone who seemed threatening, used Martial Law | |
| 620699144 | Habeas Corpus | the president can arrest anyone they want, with or without a warrant; suspend Constitution to maintain the Union | |
| 620699145 | Southern Unionists | states (or people) who disagreed with the South's secession, but were a part of the south | |
| 620699146 | West Virginia | state that secedes from within a state, because they did not want to be a part of the Confederacy | |
| 620699147 | Robert E. Lee | man who was offered to be commander of the US Army by Lincoln, but declined it because he supported his home state of VA and the Confederacy | |
| 620699148 | Bull Run | neither Union nor Confederacy was prepared to fight, but then the South held its' ground and the North started retreating; this battle showed both sides the need for preparation for war | |
| 620699149 | Confederate conscription | how many slaves you owned decided if you were going into war or staying home and running you farm | |
| 620699150 | Union Conscription | NYC draft riots: tons of Irish immigrants were drafted into war, but they rioted because they didn't want to fight against slavery because they hated blacks | |
| 620699151 | Anaconda strategy | Union war plan: to surround the south and squeeze it | |
| 620699152 | blockade | in the Anaconda strategy, they used a naval _______ to surround the city | |
| 620699153 | New Orleans | city the Union used the Anaconda strategy on; shot down the Mississippi River and cut the South in half, used rivers to penetrate deep and wage war | |
| 620699154 | ships | new ______ were invented to help with Naval War | |
| 620699155 | iron clads | iron-armoured gun boats, like river tanks, not great for seas yet | |
| 626283864 | Missouri, Kansas | first states to have Civil War within their communities, which degraded into sanction crime and violence, nastiness, Jesse James; this screws up a lot of teenagers who become men through the war, taught that stealing and rape were okay | |
| 626283865 | Indian Territory | there were pro-Confederacy armies in the ____ _____ | |
| 626283866 | Stand Watie | Cherokee Indian who was a part of the pro-Confederate army in the Indian Territory | |
| 626283867 | Western Theater | land west of the Appalachien Mountains in the Mississippi Valley | |
| 626283868 | Ulysses S. Grant | leader of the Union Army; failed in business before joining army, unpleasant to look at, but won battle after battle | |
| 626283869 | Shiloh | Grant attacks this city's railroads that the Confederacy used to ship goods; attacks Confederacy in their camps | |
| 626283870 | George McClellan | commander of US Army, liked by his troops, everything Grant wasn't: political, perfect, refined | |
| 626283871 | Peninsular Campaign | McClellan pushes down the coast and marches up toward Richmon, gets inside Richmon (too easy); meanwhile, Lee splits his forces and surrounds McClellan, McClellan retreats and Lee pushes into and invades Maryland | |
| 626283872 | Robert E. Lee | leader of Confederate Army | |
| 626283873 | Antietam | bloodiest day in American History; Lee's plan was found before the troops got there and Lee was defeated, or it was more of a draw | |
| 626283874 | Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln issues his ______ _______, which frees slaves in the South, and allows for legal justification of freeing slaves while your army was walking through the South; wanted to use this to disrupt the South | |
| 626283875 | Contraband | slaves--property of criminals and therefore subject to seizure by the US Government; slaves were put into camps and forced to cook for the army | |
| 626283876 | Black Soldiers | ___ ____ join the US Army and made up 10% | |
| 626283877 | 13th Amendment | Lincoln pushes this through and ends slavery | |
| 626283878 | European Neutrality | Britain and France had ended slavery already, and they remain neutral; Britain needed cotton, Britain recognized Texas but never recognized the Confederacy; US sold Britain food--needed food more than cotton | |
| 626283879 | Trent Affair | ship was borded by US Navy, 3 men taken off ship and put into custody; Britain claimed a violation of their neutrality | |
| 626283880 | US Greenbacks | first paper money in a very long time | |
| 626283881 | Economic Boom | American cities were prospering, replace workers with machines, but there was no machine to crop in the South, so the South suffered and began to starve because there was no food | |
| 626283882 | Copperheads | Democrats that were critical of Lincoln | |
| 626283883 | tarriff | Republicans push a new ____ to protect American Industry | |
| 626283884 | Homestead Act | act that says if you find land, its yours, if you just file a claim; encouraged people to move west | |
| 626283885 | Morrill Land Grant Act | act that establishes Land Grant colleges, colleges in every state, agriculture and engineering schools | |
| 626283886 | Lincoln vs. McClellan | Election of 1864 | |
| 626283887 | McClellan | democrats run ______ in the election of 1864, accused Lincoln of not running war effort effectively | |
| 626283888 | Lincoln | republicans ran ______ in the election of 1864 | |
| 626283889 | Union Party | party that was made after Lincoln choose Andrew Johnson, a democrat, to be his VP--trying to create a non-threatening image of himself | |
| 626283890 | Lincoln | winner of election of 1864 | |
| 626283891 | Habeas Corpus | Lincoln revokes this, can NOT put anyone in jail that he wants | |
| 626283892 | Martial Law | Lincoln uses this, law enforced by the Military | |
| 626283893 | Jefferson Davis | had to try to please everyone in the south, but that was impossible; government was an uphill battle, states refuse to surrender troops and send them to other states to support the war effort | |
| 626283894 | Internal Problems (South) | taxation problems, economy in South was agricultural, yet they had industry (Columbus); New Orleans had been captured at the beginning of the war, had widespread starvation even though they were agriculture; not much industry but they never lost a battle because they were short on ammo or weapons; farmers couldn't be made to grow corn instead of cotton and starvation came | |
| 626283895 | Confederate Money | South printed money, but it was valueless, economy spirals; populous resented Confederacy | |
| 626283896 | runaway inflation | many goods became ridiculously expensive | |
| 626283897 | Vicksburg | Grant seiges _____ from behind; Davis says he needs Lee to bring the army of N Virginia and march west to help at Vicksburg, but Lee swings north into Pennsylvania; panic ensues | |
| 626283898 | Gettysburg | Lee has to attack Union first instead of waiting; try direct assault: Lee marches his men toward a stone wall which Union soldiers were behind firing at them, Union soldiers protected | |
| 626283899 | fall of Vicksburg | the South is completely cut in half; Sherman begins his march | |
| 626283900 | War of Attrition | Lee vs. Grant: trying to grind each other down, Grant has more men, Lee is running out of men, Grant willing to loose 10 men so Lee will loose 7; Grant hurls men into battle | |
| 626283901 | William Tecumseh Sherman | fights series of battles in the mountains, pushes Confederacy back towards Atlanta; walks across GA and completely destroys it, but leaves Savannah intact | |
| 626283902 | Total War | Sherman told to walk across GA and destroy it, idea of destroying your opponents society to wage war; slaughter livestock, destroy railroads | |
| 626283903 | Appomattox Courthouse | Lee and Grant meet in a formal meeting and Lee surrenders; Lee thought his men and the South had suffered enough already, so they stopped fighting | |
| 626283904 | 620,000 | number of lives lost in Civil War | |
| 626283905 | 4 million | number of slaves freed during the Civil War | |
| 626283906 | northern industrial economy invigorated | bitterness is not gone from the North after the Civil War, economy is still bad, only people left in familes are the very old and the very young and women; still blame slaves and they hate everyone; replace people with machines, in factories immigrants replace dead workers | |
| 626283907 | South | everything in the ____ is completely destoryed after the Civil War |
