Civil War Test
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- Jackson
- 7th president, military governor of Florida
- Gettysburg Address
- Famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln
- Manassas
- First major battle, picnickers attended
- Emancipation Proclamation
- declared the freedom of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
- March to the Sea
- Started when troops left the captured Atlanta, Georgia
- Harriet Tubman
- Abolitionist and Union spy, rescued most slaves
- Cavalry
- Soldiers on horses
- Fredericksburg
- Between Lee and Potomac, most one sided battle of Civil War
- Cotton Gin
- Invented by Eli Whitney and made more cotton which meant more slaves
- Chancellorsville
- Lee's perfect battle, Stonewall Jackson died
- Burnside
- Union general, known for his sideburns
- Iron-clads
- Steam propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates
- Ulysses S. Grant
- 18th president of the United States, leading Union general of the war
- Instigator
- To urge, provoke, or incite to some action or course
- Beauregard
- Confederate, victor at 1st Battle of Bull Run
- Sherman
- General in Union Army
- Conscription
- Draft
- McClellan
- General in chief of Union army, raised well trained and organized army
- Venerable
- Commanding respect because of great age or impressive dignity
- John Brown
- Abolitionist, led unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry
- Abolitionists
- A movement that wants to banish slavery
- Douglass
- Abolitionist
- Shiloh
- Bloodiest battle
- Mexican American War
- armed military conflict between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848
- Dred Scott
- Sued because he was considered a slave when he lived in non slavery states
- Missouri Compromise
- Prohibited slavery above the 36-30 line
- Vicksburg
- Grant and army of Tenessee drove Confederates to defensive lines after crossing the Mississippi River
- Appomattox
- final engagement of Lee before surrendering to Grant
- Abraham Lincoln
- The "first and only" Republican choice for Senate. He also won the 1860 election, making him the first Republican president
- Bleeding Kansas
- Border war
- Dysentery
- Diarrhea
- Secession
- Act of withdrawing from slavery or non slavery
- Gettysburg
- Largest number of casualties in Civil War, wars turning point
- Robert E. Lee
- Confederate, one of the greatest generals
- Calamity
- A great misfortune or disaster
- Ft. Sumter
- Started Civil War
- Harper's Ferry
- Ammunition dump, was not heavily guarded, John Brown goes to Harpers fairy, get the guns to end slavery. Not everyone knew so no one showed up.
- Constitution
- Said a slave was 3/5 a person
- Anaconda Plan
- Designed by Scott to smother the South's economy
- Siege
- The act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies