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The Civil War - Chapter 11 Flashcards

To understand the military strategy, political struggle, outcome, and legacy of the Civil War.

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Union fort in Charleston, South Carolina

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Fort Sumter

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Three-part Union strategy to win the Civil War

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Anaconda Plan

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Battle won by the Confederates

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Bull Run

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Confederate general who earned his nickname because he stood as firm as a stone wall in the battle of Bull Run

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Stonewall Jackson

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Union general in the East

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George McClellan

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Union general who captured two Confederates forts in Tennessee.

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Ulysses S. Grant

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Bittersweet Union victory

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Shiloh

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Commander of the Union navy

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David G. Farragut

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Union ironclad ship

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Monitor

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Confederate ironclad ship

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Merrimack

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General who successfully defended the Confederate capital

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Robert E. Lee

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Union victory known as the bloodiest clash of the war.

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Antietam

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Order issued by Lincoln freeing slaves behind Confederate lines

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Emancipation Proclamation

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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.

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Habeas Corpus

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Northern Democrat who advocated making peace with the Confederacy during the Civil War

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Copperhead

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Drafting of civilians to serve in the army

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Conscription

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Site of Confederate massacre of more than 200 African American war prisoners

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Fort Pillow

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Tax that takes a percentage of an individual’s income

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Income tax

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Union nurse

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Clara Barton

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Confederate war camp

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Andersonville

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Most decisive battle of the war

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Gettysburg

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Confederate victory in Virginia

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Chancellorsville

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Union victory in Mississippi

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Vicksburg

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Important speech by President Lincoln

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Gettysburg Address

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Commander of Union troops in Georgia and South Carolina

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William Tecumseh Sherman

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Site of the Confederate surrender

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Appomattox Court House

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Law that set up a system of federally chartered banks

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National Bank Act

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Abolished slavery everywhere in the United States

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Thirteenth Amendment

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Relief agency founded by Clara Barton in 1881

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Red Cross

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Assassin of President Lincoln

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John Wilkes Booth

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