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Chapter 11 - Test Flashcards

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1
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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

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Habeas Corpus

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Wearing down through use

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Attrition

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Freed all slaves after the Battle of Antietam because the huge loss of life at Antietam was turning the Northerners against the war

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Emancipation Proclamation

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After the battle of ________ Lincoln gave a speech at a cemetery to honor all the lives lost at ________

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Gettysburg Address

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Outlawed slavery in the U.S.

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13th Amendment

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Burned down the Pickens Courthouse and burned the University of Alabama

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Croxton’s Raiders

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Democrats who did not support the war

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Copperheads

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The first African American regiment organized in the north (freed and enslaved African American)

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54th Massachusetts Regiment

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Bread eaten by soldiers; In the north made from flour and in the south made from cornmeal; like a biscuit

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Hardtack

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An actor who assassinated Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

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Paper money issued by the Northern government that had little value by the end of the war

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Greenbacks

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Known as Stonewall Jackson; Right hand of Robert E. Lee; died from wounds in the Battle of Chancellorsville

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Thomas Jackson

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Killed at Shiloh; leader of the Confederate army

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Albert Sidney Johnson

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Union general strike the end of the war; controlled the entire Union army

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Headed the army of northern Virgina; lead general of the confederate army in the east

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Robert E. Lee

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Practiced total war in Georgia; cavalry officer under Grant; burned Atlanta

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William T. Sherman

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17
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Gave citizenship to former slaves

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14th Amendment

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18
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Gave slaves the rights to vote

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15th Amendment

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Ran for president against Lincoln; leader of Union army who was replaced by Lincoln three times; lost to Lee in Antietam

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George McClellan

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20
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Lost to Lee at Chancellorsville

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Joseph Hooker

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21
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Led a charge across a mile of open ground at Gettysburg that injured/killed 6,000 men; known as ________ Charge

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George Pickett

22
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Practiced total war at the Shenandoah Valley

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Philip Sheridan

23
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Defeated Lee at Gettysburg

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George Meade

24
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Lost to Lee at Fredericksburg

A

Ambrose Burnside

25
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Commander of Andersonville and the only one accused for crimes against humanity

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Henry Wirz

26
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Nurse in the field who later founded the Red Cross. Also started the Sanitary Commission to treat how to care for patient

A

Clara Barton

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Led the troops at bull run

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PGT Beauregard

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Albert Sidney Johnson killed here; in Tennessee; location of the Hornets nest

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Shiloh

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Bloodiest Battle of the warm

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Antietam

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First real battle of army against army of the war; confederates won; also called Mannassas

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Bull Run

31
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Last major victory of the confederates in the war

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Chickamauga

32
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Taken by siege by Grant

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Vicksburg

33
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Prison in Georgia

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Andersonville

34
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Where two major rail-lines meet

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Corinth

35
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Where Lee surrendered to a Grant

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Appomattox Courthouse

36
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Compare the war plan of the North and the South

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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

37
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Meade defeated Lee here and is the turning point of the war in the east

A

Gettysburg

38
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Lincoln was watching ___________ when he was assassinated

A

“Our American Cousin”

39
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Name three major military schools attended by most Civil War Officers

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West Point
VMI (Virginia Military Institute)
The Citadel in Charleston

40
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Name the new weapons used in the war and explain how they affected injuries

A

Minie ball (used in the rifles)
Gatling gun (caused explosions)
Grenades - shrapnel (caused amputations)
Spencer and Henry rifle (caused life-threatening injuries)

41
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Meade occupied a high ground called

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Cemetery Ridge

42
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Captures the port of New Orleans

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Farragut

43
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Marimack and Moniter were examples of

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Ironclads

44
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Grant captured these forts before the Battle of Shiloh

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Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

45
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Siege warfare was used by Grant with these two cities

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Vicksburg and Richmond

46
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Railings that were Hester and twisted by Sherman’s men were called

A

Sherman’s neckties

47
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Battle of Antietam was also called

A

Sharksburg

48
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Led the Union army at Antietam

A

McClellan

49
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Long knife attached to the front of a gun

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Baronet

50
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Forcing people into military service

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American History I (Betty) (15 decks)

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