The Battle of Antietam Flashcards

1652643110	13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments	Civil War amendments (abolished slavery , citizenship, voting rights).	0
1652643111	Border states	in the civil war the states between the north and the south: delaware, mayland, kentucky, and missouri.	1
1652643112	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.	2
1652643113	Robert Lee	general who took command of the Confederate forces; achieved victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run	3
1652643114	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.	4
1652643115	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.	5
1652643116	War of attrition	A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses	6
1653792619	First Battle of Bull Run	First "real" battle of the Civil War, it was expected by Union officials to be short but ended up a Confederate victory	7
1653792620	Emancipation Proclamation	(AL) , Issued by abraham lincoln on september 22, 1862 it declared that all slaves in the confederate states would be free	8
1653792621	Appomattox Courthouse	April 1865., the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War	9