The Civil War - Chapter 11 Flashcards
To understand the military strategy, political struggle, outcome, and legacy of the Civil War.
Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina
Fort Sumter
Three-part Union strategy to win the Civil War
Anaconda Plan
Battle won by the Confederates
Bull Run
Confederate general who earned his nickname because he stood as firm as a stone wall in the battle of Bull Run
Stonewall Jackson
Union general in the East
George McClellan
Union general who captured two Confederates forts in Tennessee.
Ulysses S. Grant
Bittersweet Union victory
Shiloh
Commander of the Union navy
David G. Farragut
Union ironclad ship
Monitor
Confederate ironclad ship
Merrimack
General who successfully defended the Confederate capital
Robert E. Lee
Union victory known as the bloodiest clash of the war.
Antietam
Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind Confederate lines
Emancipation Proclamation
Court order that says that a person who is jailed has to appear before the court to determine why he or she is being jailed.
Habeas Corpus
Northern Democrat who advocated making peace with the Confederacy during the Civil War
Copperhead
Drafting of civilians to serve in the army
Conscription
Site of Confederate massacre of more than 200 African American war prisoners
Fort Pillow
Tax that takes a percentage of an individual’s income
Income tax
Union nurse
Clara Barton
Confederate war camp
Andersonville
Most decisive battle of the war
Gettysburg
Confederate victory in Virginia
Chancellorsville
Union victory in Mississippi
Vicksburg
Important speech by President Lincoln
Gettysburg Address
Commander of Union troops in Georgia and South Carolina
William Tecumseh Sherman
Site of the Confederate surrender
Appomattox Court House
Law that set up a system of federally chartered banks
National Bank Act
Abolished slavery everywhere in the United States
Thirteenth Amendment
Relief agency founded by Clara Barton in 1881
Red Cross
Assassin of President Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
