Chapter 14 Flashcards
Effort to blockade the South and capture the Mississippi River.
Anaconda plan
The South’s main army in the East.
Army of Northern Virginia.
The North’s main army in the East.
Army of the Potomac
Democrats who were for peace,who sympathized with the South,and who opposed Lincoln.
Copperheads
Sherman’s destruction of Georgia.
March to the sea
Northern ironclad with a revolving gun turret.
Monitor
Early, unsuccessful attempt to capture the Southern Capital
Peninsular Campaign
Diversion of two Union armies by a small Confederate force.
Valley Campaign
Southern ironclad that threatened to break the blockade.
Virginia
Continual fighting in the woods north of Richmond.
Wilderness Campaign
Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Appomattox Court House
Confederate loss that opened the door for Sherman’s march.
Battle of Chattanooga
Resulted in the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietam
Marked the end of the South’s offensive capabilities.
Battle of Gettysburg
Grant’s army was caught “napping”.
Battle of Shiloh
First major land battle of the war.
First Battle of Manassas
Opened Tennessee to invasion.
Forts Henry and Donelson.
The South’s successful defense of its capital.
Seven Day’s Battles
Efforts to capture the rail center feeding Richmond.
Siege of Petersburg
Loss that gave the North total control of the Mississippi River.
Siege of Vicksburg
Famous speech given by Lincoln to dedicate a war cemetery for one of the bloodiest battles of the war.
Gettysburg Address
The draft or compulsory enrollment of men into military service.
Conscription
State unconstitutionally admitted into the Union during the war.
West Virginia
This was the central issue that sparked the war.
State’s rights
General who once left the army because of alleged drunkenness.
Ulysses S. Grant
General who played a critical support role in the Confederate victories 1st Manassas,Seven Day’s Battles,Second Manassas,&Chancellorville.
Thomas(stonewall)Jackson
Iron plated warship.
Ironclad
Military strategist who was assistant to Jefferson Davis.
Robert E.Lee
This event almost brought Britain into the war.
Trent affair
With this President Lincoln,all slaves in rebel-controlled territory would be freed .It excluded slaves in the Union’s border states and in Confederate territory
Emancipation proclamation
Merchant ships that risked the wrath of the Union navy to bring supplies to into Southern sports.
Blockade Runners
Battle that on the final day left entrenched Confederate positions that left 7,000 Union soldiers dead.
Battle of cold Harbor
This battle and the fall of this city helped ensure Lincoln’s re-election.
Battle of Atlanta
The capture of what city ensured Lincoln’s reelection in 1864?
Atlanta
During what daring campaign did Grant cut his army off from his supply based to surprise his enemy?
Vicksburg campaign
A slave state that did not secede was considered a?
Border state(they didn’t join, leave the union)
Which battle was the bloodiest day?
Battle of Antietam
What was last effort by confederation to win Gettysburg?
Pickett
Lincoln act beyond his constitutional power?(T/F)
True
What is the bloodiest war in American history?
Civil war
What was the Souths primary advantage in the outset of the war?
Better commanders
What was the Souths basic strategy for the war?
To wage defensive war and to outlast the will to fight.
Where did most of the fighting East take place ?
Virginia
What was the significant between the clash monitor and the Virginia?
The age of wooden ships was coming to an end.
What was the significant outcome of Josefine fair oaks outside richmond?
Robert Lee was promoted to lead the army.
Which battle was the first clear-cut defeat of Northern Virginia?
Battle of Gettysburg
Why did the north want to capture the Mississippi river?
The Mississippi divided the confederation in two.
What caused a major riot in New York?
Conscription
Why did Grant continue after losing so many men?
He knew he could replace
Describe strategy behind Anaconda plan? (Pg.285)
The North would have to invade the South, thus becoming the belligerent, and defeat the Southern armies in the field.
What are two ways of the war benefited the Northern home front ?(pg.299-300)
1) Most farm hands away fighting.
2) Farmers learned to rely more heavily on machinery.
