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Chapter 15 vocab
2021-2022 chapter 15 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Robert E. Lee | Commander of the Confederate forces in the Civil War |
Anacoda Plan | Union strategy for defeating the Confederacy |
Clara Barton | Civil War nurse and founder of the American Red Cross |
Draft | law that requires men of a certain age to serve in military, if called. |
Appomattox Court House | Town in central Virginia, site of Confederate General Lee's surrender to the Union to Union General Grant on April 9th, 1865, ending the Civil war. |
William T. Sherman | Union general in the Civil War whose "March of the Sea" in 1864 helped defeat the Confederacy. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 18th president of the United States and commander of the Union forces in the Civil War. |
Gettysburg Address | Famous Civil War speech given by President Lincoln in 1863 at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. |
Total War | method of warfare used by General William Sherman in which both the opposing army and an enemy's civilan populations are targets. |
assassination | the killing of a high-ranking official or leader |
Reconstruction | the period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states rejoined the Union |