Chapter 11 - Test Flashcards
A person’s right to know what they are being arrested for and not to be imprisoned unless charged with a crime and given a trial
Habeas Corpus
Wearing down through use
Attrition
Freed all slaves after the Battle of Antietam because the huge loss of life at Antietam was turning the Northerners against the war
Emancipation Proclamation
After the battle of ________ Lincoln gave a speech at a cemetery to honor all the lives lost at ________
Gettysburg Address
Outlawed slavery in the U.S.
13th Amendment
Burned down the Pickens Courthouse and burned the University of Alabama
Croxton’s Raiders
Democrats who did not support the war
Copperheads
The first African American regiment organized in the north (freed and enslaved African American)
54th Massachusetts Regiment
Bread eaten by soldiers; In the north made from flour and in the south made from cornmeal; like a biscuit
Hardtack
An actor who assassinated Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
Paper money issued by the Northern government that had little value by the end of the war
Greenbacks
Known as Stonewall Jackson; Right hand of Robert E. Lee; died from wounds in the Battle of Chancellorsville
Thomas Jackson
Killed at Shiloh; leader of the Confederate army
Albert Sidney Johnson
Union general strike the end of the war; controlled the entire Union army
Ulysses S. Grant
Headed the army of northern Virgina; lead general of the confederate army in the east
Robert E. Lee
Practiced total war in Georgia; cavalry officer under Grant; burned Atlanta
William T. Sherman
Gave citizenship to former slaves
14th Amendment
Gave slaves the rights to vote
15th Amendment
Ran for president against Lincoln; leader of Union army who was replaced by Lincoln three times; lost to Lee in Antietam
George McClellan
Lost to Lee at Chancellorsville
Joseph Hooker
Led a charge across a mile of open ground at Gettysburg that injured/killed 6,000 men; known as ________ Charge
George Pickett
Practiced total war at the Shenandoah Valley
Philip Sheridan
Defeated Lee at Gettysburg
George Meade
Lost to Lee at Fredericksburg
Ambrose Burnside
Commander of Andersonville and the only one accused for crimes against humanity
Henry Wirz
Nurse in the field who later founded the Red Cross. Also started the Sanitary Commission to treat how to care for patient
Clara Barton
Led the troops at bull run
PGT Beauregard
Albert Sidney Johnson killed here; in Tennessee; location of the Hornets nest
Shiloh
Bloodiest Battle of the warm
Antietam
First real battle of army against army of the war; confederates won; also called Mannassas
Bull Run
Last major victory of the confederates in the war
Chickamauga
Taken by siege by Grant
Vicksburg
Prison in Georgia
Andersonville
Where two major rail-lines meet
Corinth
Where Lee surrendered to a Grant
Appomattox Courthouse
Compare the war plan of the North and the South
South- War of Attrition: attack the north in small battles so we don’t loose many troops (because if our small army) and make the war last a long time so the Union would get tired of fighting and let us do our own thing
North - Anaconda Plan: blockade southern ports, divide between a western and eastern fronts, and take control of Richmond
Meade defeated Lee here and is the turning point of the war in the east
Gettysburg
Lincoln was watching ___________ when he was assassinated
“Our American Cousin”
Name three major military schools attended by most Civil War Officers
West Point
VMI (Virginia Military Institute)
The Citadel in Charleston
Name the new weapons used in the war and explain how they affected injuries
Minie ball (used in the rifles)
Gatling gun (caused explosions)
Grenades - shrapnel (caused amputations)
Spencer and Henry rifle (caused life-threatening injuries)
Meade occupied a high ground called
Cemetery Ridge
Captures the port of New Orleans
Farragut
Marimack and Moniter were examples of
Ironclads
Grant captured these forts before the Battle of Shiloh
Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
Siege warfare was used by Grant with these two cities
Vicksburg and Richmond
Railings that were Hester and twisted by Sherman’s men were called
Sherman’s neckties
Battle of Antietam was also called
Sharksburg
Led the Union army at Antietam
McClellan
Long knife attached to the front of a gun
Baronet
Forcing people into military service
Conscription
