Chapters 20-22 Flashcards
Fort Sumter
Lincoln wants to provision island, South takes it as an attack
Border States
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia, with Union but are proslave
Trent Affair
Union foricbly removes 2 CSA envoys from Brit ship
Laird rams
ship that ram into other, powerful, Brit
Alabama
powerful Brit ship for CSA
Dominion of Canada
gave relative independence to Canada
writ of habeas corpus
Lincoln suspends Habeas Corpus
Morrill Tariff Act
Republican’s protective tariff
Greenbacks
fluctuate with Union success
National Banking System
if you join, your bank can by government bonds
Homestead Act
allows pioneers to settle for free in the west
U.S Sanitary Comission
trained nurses, collected medical supplies and equipped hospitals
Charles Francis Adams
president of the Pacific Railroad
Napoleon III
invades mexico and puts Maximilian on throne
Jefferson Davis
CSA president
Elizabeth Blackwell
first female doctor
Clara Barton
founder of red cross
Sally Tompkins
Female confederate nurse
Bull Run
north gets humbled, first battle
Peninsula Campaign
McClellan’s campaign to capture Richmond
Merimack
plated with iron, Southern
Monitor
plated with iron, Northern
Second Battle of Bull Run
Lee wins with frontal attack
Antietam
McClellan victory, Maryland