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Ch 17.1
Mrs. Smiley's Chapter 17.1
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Robert E. Lee | Commander of Confed. Army |
VA, NC, AR, TN | Name of states that seceded after 1861 |
Martial Law | rule by army |
problems in the South faced during the war | food and weapons shortages; inflation |
Lee decisive victory | Fredricksburg & Chancellorville |
Gettysburg Address purpose | preserve the union |
General Grant planned to end the war by... | destroying the souths ability to fight |
Rose Greenhow | Entertained Union leaders in home and spied for the South |
weakness in the south | few railroads |
South's war plan | wearing down the union army |
Monitor and Merrimack | ironclad ships |
Battle of Bull Run | more training |
Emancipation Proclomation | abolition of slavery |
Wilmot Proviso | outlaw slavery in the west |
Abolitionists | slavery outlawed |
Popular Sovereignty | voters should decide about slavery |
Free Soil Party | Antislavery Whigs & Democrats |
Free soiler candidate for president in 1848 | Van Buren |
Fugitive | runaway slave |
civil war | conflict between people of same country |
arsenal | gun warehouse |
2 southern generals | Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson |
1st state to seceed | South Carolina |
Gen. who invaded Antietam | General Lee |
Gen. at the Battle of Gettysburg | Meade |
Gen. captured and burned Atlanta | Sherman |
General Lee surrendered where... | Appomatox Courthouse, VA |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beacher Stowe |
Union goals at beginning of war? | block southern ports, control Mississippi, capturing Richmond |
battles confederacy won | chancellorsville, bull run, fredericsburg |
Union-1818-probs between free and slave states | Missouri |
slaver prohibitied via the MO Compromise | slavery prohibitied north of MO |
northerns fear from spread of slavery in the west | war with Mexico in 1846 |
Civil War helped northern economy | clothing, ammunitiion. and other industries |
issue of states rights | collect taxes |
North and South passed draft laws | needed more soldiers |
turning point in war | Battle of Gettysburg |
Porposed the MO Comp | Henry Clay |
example of sectionalism | wide spread support of slavery |
president of confederacy | jefferson davis |
beginning of civil war | april 9, 1865 |
northerns who supported the south | copperheads |
slave who fought for his freedom | dred scott |