Chapter 11 Vocab Flashcards
Fort Sumter
fort located in Charleston, South Carolina
Major Anderson
commander of Union army in Fort Sumter
Anaconda Plan
blockade, capture Richmond, Virginia, and split south in half via the Mississippi
Bull Run
first major bloodshed battle with union general McDowell against Stonewall Jackson (southern victory)
Stonewall Jackson
confederate general
George McClellan
union general good at training soldiers but never liked to use army
Ulysses S. Grant
union general pretty much great in army but failed at life hahaha
Unconditional Surrender Grant when he captured forts Henry and Donelson
Shiloh
Rebels shot Union while making coffee and Grant reorganized army and counterattacked at dawn and won
now generals had to send out scouts and build fortifications
David G. Farragut
union commander in charge of capturing New Orleans and did along with other major forts which meant the Anaconda plan split was working
Monitor and Merrimack
ironclad ships with the northern Monitor and southern Merrimack draw. but the south and destroyed two north wooden ships and sent another fleeing
Robert E. Lee
rebel general and fought against McClellan in the seven days battles and scared union even though rebels were hurt more so McClellan moved away to sea
Antietam
bloodiest single day in American history where McClellan found rebel papers wrapped in cigar and attacked Lee but was scared to pursue after he won so Lincoln later fired him cause of how cautious he was
William Yancey
dude who went and asked Britain to help south
James Mason and John Slidell
confederate diplomats sent to try and gain support from Britain and France a second time and were arrested in the Trent Affair
Charles Wilkes
arrested the two men in the Trent Affair
Horace Greeley
urged Lincoln to make war to free slaves not to keep union together but Lincoln disagreed but issued Emancipation Proclimation
Emancipation Proclimation
freed slaves in confederate areas
Reverend Henry M. Turner
African that talked about Emancipation Proclamation’s significance
habeus corpus
a court order making authorities bring a person before court to tell why they are being jailed, not to give them a hearing (so suspicious peeps could be innocent but taken)
copperheads
northern democrats who wanted peace with the south
Clement Vallandigham
a copperhead tried and convicted of urging union soldiers to desert
conscription
a draft that both rebels and the union used
draft riot
angry mobs that complained about having to fight a war for blacks just so they could steal their jobs
Mary Chesnut
southerners wife who wrote diary about common southern life
