Ch 22 Civil war
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168166293 | Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederacy during the Civil War | |
168166294 | Bull Run | The first major land battle of the American Civil War. The Confederates won. | |
168166295 | Antietam | Bloodiest single day of fighting during the Civil War resulted in a draw and prompted Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. | |
168166296 | Emancipation Proclamtion | Lincoln's order that slaves in Confederate states would be forever free. *Changes focus of the war from being about preserving the Union to ending slavery. | |
168166297 | Draft | A law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military | |
168166298 | Gettysburg | The most violent battle of the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war's turning point, fought from July 1 - July 3, 1863. | |
168166299 | Gettysburg Address | Speech given by Lincoln in November, 1863 to honor dead and reaffirm Declaration of Independence Ideals | |
168166300 | Vicksburg | Grant's best fought campaign, this siege ended in the seizure of the Mississippi River by the Union | |
168166301 | Robert E. Lee | General for the south, took large chances, was a great general, surrendered to Grant on 4/9/65 | |
168166302 | The Monitor | A tiny Union ironclad that fought the Merrimack | |
168166303 | Ulysses Grant | Union military commander who won victories when others had failed and defeated Lee. | |
168166304 | The Merrimac | First iron-clad ship of the Southern navy. Fought to a tie,and changed the way they built ships. | |
168166305 | Appomattox | Lee surrenders here, but Grant offers the Confederacy good surrender terms to try to reunify the country. | |
168166306 | William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war | |
168166307 | Blockade | The shutting of a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out | |
168469309 | Ft. Sumter | Union fort attacked by confederates in 1861. started civil war. | |
168469310 | George McClellan | Union General who failed to press his advantage at the Battle of Antietam, and was later relieved of his command by President Lincoln. | |
169994008 | Anacanda Plan | A three part strategy including that the Union army would blockade Southern ports, Union riverboats and armies would move down the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy into two. |