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Identifications ch11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anderson ville | the worst Confederate army prison in Georgia, crammed 33,000 men into 26 acres. The prisoners had no shelter, drank from the same stream that was their sewer. |
| Confederacy | formed by the 11 states that seceded from the Union during the Civil War, their strategy to win their own independence,; Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas. |
| First Bull Run | first major bloodshed between Confederates and Union, that occurred on July 21, ended in a seesaw affair, resulted in the first victory for the South. |
| Anaconda Plan | North's plan to defeat the Confederacy; 1. blockade all southern ports, 2. take control of the Mississippi River and split the confederacy into two, 3. Capture the capital Richmond, Virginia. |
| Ironclads | ships that could splinter wooden ships, withstand cannon fire, and resist burning |
| Gettysburg | located in Pennsylvania, three day battle which happened to cause the turning point in the war, the Union army defeated the Confederates in the end. |
| Fort Sumter | first fired on in South Carolina, an island on the Charleston Harbor, Confederates took their first shots. The South Carolinians bombarded the fort with more than 4,000 rounds before Anderson surrendered. |
| Vicksburg | Mississippi, Union Victory, they seized Jackson, starvation occurred. The Confederacy was finally split into two and the Union gained control of the Mississippi. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | A rumpled West Point graduate who had failed at everything he had tried in civilian life, He was a brave, tough, and decisive military commander though. His forces captured two forts. He received the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant. |
| Shiloh | small Tennessee church, demonstrated how bloody the war might become. Confederate forces shot union forces. The battle ended in a draw. |
| General George McClellan | appointed by Lincoln to lead the Union Army, did nothing with his forces, soon fired by Lincoln |
| Antietam | bloodiest single day battle in American history, Casualties totaled more than 26,000, the battle was a standoff in the end. 14. John Wilkes Booth- 26 year old actor and southern sympathizer, assassinated Lincoln at Ford's Theater. |
| Robert E. Lee | took over the Confederate army after Joseph Johnston died. McClellan vs. Lee |
| Habeas Corpus | a court order that requires authorities to bring a person held in jail before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed, soon suspended |
| Monitor | North's Ironclad, Monitor vs. Merrimack |
| 13th Amendment | abolished slavery in the United States, ratified by 27 states |
| Armistice | a cease fire agreement based on mutual consent |
| Clara Barton | helped found the Red Cross, union nurse that worked on all of the front lines, helped the soldiers. |
| Merrimack | South's Ironclad |
| Appomattox Court House | Lee and Grant arranged for the surrender to take place here |
| General Sherman | appointed by Grant to be military division of the Mississippi, raided Georgia, famous for his march to the sea, fought African Americans |
| Gettysburg Address | "remade America", written by Lincoln in 1863 after the battle of Gettysburg; explains how we shall never forget the ones who fought in the Civil War, or our nation of freedom |
| 54th Massachusetts | first all black regiment to fight in the civil war, included two sons of Frederick Douglas, led a fight on Charleston Harbor |
| Conscription | a draft that would force certain members of the population to serve in the army. The Confederate law drafted all able-bodied white men between the ages of 18 and 35. |
| Copper heads | northern democrats who push for peace in the South |
| Unconditional Surrender | Grants nickname when he informed the Southern commander that “no terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.” Then the Confederates surrendered. |
| Richmond | capital of Virginia, north's goal was to capture this capital from the Southern Confederates. |
| Army of the Potomac | McClellan's army trained to capture the capital of Virginia, and control the Mississippi river |
| Emancipation Proclamation | written and issued by Abraham Lincoln, freed the slaves, only applied to people behind the Confederate Lines, it did not apply to Southern territory already occupied by Union troops nor to the slave states that had not seceded. |
| Alabama Claims | diplomatic disagreement between Great Britain and the United States, Confederates destroyed the Northerners over relations. |
| National Banking Act 1863 | which set up a system of federally chartered banks, set requirements for loans, and provided for banks to be inspected. These measures helped make banking safer for investors. |
| Scorched Earth Policy | military strategy in which troops take and destroy everything and anything that might be useful to the enemy that can advantage the forces using the policy |
| March to the Sea | William Tecumseh Sherman led his troops across the Mississippi River to raid Georgia |
| Admiral Farragut | ran his fleet past two Confederate forts in spite of booming enemy guns and fire rafts heaped with burning pitch. Farragut took control of Baton Rouge and Natchez. |
| April 14, 1865 | date of the last battle of the civil war that concluded the fighting known as the Battle of West Point, raid of three troops that took place in Columbus, Georgia |
| "Sic Simper tyrannies" | state motto of Virginia, said to have been one of John Wilkes Booth's last words after he assassinated Lincoln. Means "Thus be it ever to tyrants" |
| William Carney | the first African American to win a Congressional Medal of Honor |
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