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FINALS LEDMAN
Question | Answer |
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Bull Run | first “woah” moment that made people realize the war wasn’t short (Manassas) |
Anaconda Plan | plan that successfully suffocated south |
Shiloh | second intense moment that helped make people understand how bloody civil war was |
Antietam | first major union win, resulted in emancipation proclamation |
Gettysburg | bloodiest battle in U.S. history |
Vicksburg | cuts Mississippi, cutting confederacy in half |
Spring Campaign | starts bringing full throttle, grant pushing and starts implementing anaconda plan |
Reconstruction | attempt at not only reconstructing physical objects of south, but also attitudes (equality) |
Falling of Atlanta | basically allowed Lincoln the ability to be reelected… without falling of Atlanta, Lincoln probably couldn’t have been reelected. It reassured the people that Lincoln had the power to control the confederacy |
Fort Sumter | where civil war started ; fought over supplies and confederates fired the first shot. Nobody was killed |
Border States | suspends habeus corpus to keep them in the union |
Monitor vs Merrimack | iron clads, monitor = northerner John Errickson’s response to the Merrimack |
Shanandoah / Alabama | confederate raider ships |
Kansas-Nebraska Act | implements popular sovereignty in the states, although it causes a ton of wars |
Ostend manifesto | plan to attack cuba and that it would be “justified by ever law |