Civil War (US) Flashcards by Bob Nickles

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Rebuilding the South after the US Civil War

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Reconstruction

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Gettysburg ridge Pickett charged up

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Cemetary Ridge

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Number of states in the union

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twenty-three

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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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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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Term for southern sympathizers in the North

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Copperhead

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Doctor who set Booth’s broken leg

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Samuel Mudd

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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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Site of first Civil War battle in April 1861

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Fort Sumter

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Union general; “Uncle Billy”

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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Civil War detective agency

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Pinkerton’s

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Confederate commander at Gettysburg

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Robert E. Lee

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First state to rejoin the union

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Tennessee

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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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Virginia

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Union army chief relieved in 1862

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George McClellan

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Lincoln’s first choice to head union army

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Robert E. Lee

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Union general with “mutton chop” sideburns

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Ambrose Burnside

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Number of states in the confederacy

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Eleven

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Confederate capital after Montgomery

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Richmond VA

Man who led raid on Harper's Ferry - 1859

John Brown

Confederate inaugral song

_Dixie_

Pinkerton's Detective agency motto

"We never sleep"

Union commander at Gettysburg

George Meade

Pennsylvannia battle site - July 1863

Gettysburg

President of Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

Infamous Confederate POW camp

Andersonville (in GA)

First state to secede from the union

South Carolina

Last state to rejoin the union

Georgia

Union general who captured Atlanta

William T. Sherman

Underground railroad conductor; "Moses" of her people

Harriet Tubman

Gettysburg "charge"

Pickett's Charge

Theater where Lincoln was shot

Ford's Theater

Union ironclad

Monitor

Civil War "Angel of the Battlefield"

Clara Barton

Only person executed for war crimes after US Civil War

Henry Wirz - Andersonville POW commandant