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Civil War (US) Flashcards

1
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Rebuilding the South after the US Civil War

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Reconstruction

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2
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Gettysburg ridge Pickett charged up

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Cemetary Ridge

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3
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Number of states in the union

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twenty-three

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4
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Slave involved in Supreme Court decision

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Dred Scott

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Tennessee battle site - April 1862

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Shiloh (won by U.S. Grant)

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Woman hung for Lincoln’s death

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Mary Surratt

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7
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Northern opportunists in the South after Civil War

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Carpetbaggers

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Lincoln was shot while watching this play

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Our American Cousin

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9
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Term for southern sympathizers in the North

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Copperhead

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10
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Doctor who set Booth’s broken leg

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Samuel Mudd

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11
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Man who shot Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

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First major battle of the US Civil War - July 1861

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First Manassas (Bull Run) Virginia

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13
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Site of first Civil War battle in April 1861

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Fort Sumter

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14
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Union general; “Uncle Billy”

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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15
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Civil War detective agency

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Pinkerton’s

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16
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Confederate commander at Gettysburg

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Robert E. Lee

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17
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First state to rejoin the union

18
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Bloodiest battle in American history - Sept 1862

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Antietam MD

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Last state to secede from the unioin

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Union army chief relieved in 1862

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George McClellan

21
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Lincoln’s first choice to head union army

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Robert E. Lee

22
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Union general with “mutton chop” sideburns

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Ambrose Burnside

23
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Number of states in the confederacy

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Confederate capital after Montgomery

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Richmond VA

25
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Man who led raid on Harper’s Ferry - 1859

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John Brown

26
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Confederate inaugral song

27
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Pinkerton’s Detective agency motto

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“We never sleep”

28
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Union commander at Gettysburg

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George Meade

29
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Pennsylvannia battle site - July 1863

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Gettysburg

30
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President of Confederate States of America

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Jefferson Davis

31
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Infamous Confederate POW camp

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Andersonville (in GA)

32
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First state to secede from the union

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South Carolina

33
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Last state to rejoin the union

34
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Union general who captured Atlanta

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William T. Sherman

35
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Underground railroad conductor; “Moses” of her people

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Harriet Tubman

36
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Gettysburg “charge”

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Pickett’s Charge

37
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Theater where Lincoln was shot

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Ford’s Theater

38
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Union ironclad

39
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Civil War “Angel of the Battlefield”

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Clara Barton

40
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Only person executed for war crimes after US Civil War

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Henry Wirz - Andersonville POW commandant

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