Chapter 11 Flashcards
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Anaconda Plan
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-Northern Civil War strategy to starve theSouth by blockading seaports and controlling theMississippi River
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Border States
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- During the Civil War, the states that allowedslavery but remained in the Union
- Delaware, Kentucky,Maryland, and Missouri
- Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeus corpus: arrests anyone who threatens the union
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Shiloh
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- 1862 Civil War battle
- 25,000 Unionand Confederate troops were killed or wounded(2 days)
- Grant: General of the Union Army during this battle
- 20 miles away when Confederates attacked
- Once back, leads the army
- 20 miles away when Confederates attacked
- Albert Sydney Johnson: General of Confederate Army
- Dies, attack is stalled, Grant gets back
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Robert E. Lee
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- Came from influential family
- During Mexican War, decorated for bravery
- Denied command of Union army because Virginia might secede
- Accepted command of the Confederate Army of the South
- Outstanding record in the military
- Did not like the idea of slavery and succession, but did not want to fight with the Union
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Stonewall Jackson
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- Nickname for Confederate General Thomas J. Jackson
- Led a stand during the Battle of Bull Run that led the North to retreat
- Named after his refusal to yield to the Union army
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Blockade
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- Military tactic in which a navy prevents vesselsfrom entering or leaving its enemy’s ports
- Prevent cotton from getting to Europe
- Prevent European goods from getting to South
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George B. McClellan
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- The replacement for General Irvin McDowell of the North after the Battle of Bull Run
- Organized the Army of the Potomac
- Fighting:
- Reluctant to commit so many troops to battle
- Hates that people die (reluctant)
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Ulysess S Grant
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- “Unconditional Surrender Grant”
- General of the Union Army
- Pursued the Mississippi Valley wing of the Anaconda Plan
- Captured 2 Confederate Army strongholds: Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
- drove Confederate forces from western Kentucky and Tennessee
- Fought in the Battle of Shiloh
- 25,000 Confederate and Union soldiers killed
- Ruined Grant’s rep
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Contraband
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- Supplies captured from an enemy duringwartime
- Slaves captured: executed or sent back to slavery in South if South won
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Battle of Antietam
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- 1862 Civil War battle in which 23,000 troopswere killed or wounded in one day
- Battle won by Union because they know the battle plan
- Robert E. Lee invades North but is driven out because a paper plan is found
- Afterwards Emancipation Proclamation is published because Abraham views this as victory
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Emancipation Proclamation
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- January 1st 1863
- Decree by President Lincolnthat freed enslaved people living in Confederate states
- Only frees slaves in Confederacy, not the Boarder States
- Abraham wants:
- Support of Abolitionists
- Gain support from non-slavery countries (France, England ignore Confederacy)
- Set the Civil War on highly moral ground (about setting men free, another reason to fight war)
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Militia Act
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-1862 law that allowed African American soldiersto serve in the Union military
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54th Massachusetts Regiment
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-All black unit led by Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War
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Bonds
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- Certificate bought from the government that promisesto pay the holder back the purchase amount plus interestat a future date
- Person loans money to government during war, gets bond, get money back + interest at a later date (after war)
- Shows that you believe that your area will win the war
- Could buy yourself out of military service, pay someone else to fight in war
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Income Tax
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- Tax that must be paid by individuals and corporationsbased on money earned
- 3% of people income, considered a lot of money
