Unit 6 Modules 5.4-6.2 Flashcards
Union fort that guarded the harbor in Charleston, South Carolina. The Confederacy’s decision to fire on the fort and block resupply in April 1861 marked the beginning of the Civil War. The firing on this prompted most to line up behind Lincoln’s call for war.
Fort Sumter
A Southern general who fought at Gettysburg, but was halted. He, representing the Confederate side, surrendered to Ulysses S.Grant, representing the union side at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, ending the fighting of the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee
Union general during the American Civil War. After he won the Vicksburg battle, a turning point of the war for the north, he was then promoted to lead the entire Union army. He signed the end of the civil war at Appomattox Courthouse. Under his leadership, the Union army was more aggressive and committed to destroy the South’s will to fight. He appointed William T. Sherman led the Southern campaign, which took a huge victory for the Union during Sherman’s March to the Sea.
Ulysses S. Grant
slave states that did not seceded from the the Union during the American Civil War. Enslaved people in these states did not get freed after the Emancipation Proclamation. These states included Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware and West Virginia (Later on and splitting from Virginia).
Border States
military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. it was a plan that would strangle the Confederacy by cutting it off from external markets and sources of material
Anaconda Plan
New weapons used in the Civil war. They were Ironclad naval ships and used in the American Civil War during a naval engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, a harbor at the mouth of the James River and a portion of Chesapeake Bay, for five hours . The battle they were used in was notable as history’s first duel between ironclad warships and the beginning of a new era of naval warfare.
Monitor and Merrimack
September 1862 battle in Sharpsburg, Maryland. While it remains the bloodiest single day in U.S. military history, it gave Abraham Lincoln the victory he sought before announcing the Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
Also known as the “The Great Emancipator”, who was President during the American Civil War, who, after the war, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This executive order freed all enslaved people in Confederate territories, Inspired enslaved people in the South to escape which forced Southern whites to worry about their farms, but it did not free enslaved people in the border states but it gave the North a new reason to fight. Shot by John Wilkes Booth and won the Election of 1864 and 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
January 1, 1863 . Declared all enslaved people in areas still in rebellion “forever free.” While stopping short of abolishing slavery outright, this nonetheless, seen by both black people and white abolitionists as a great victory.
Emancipation Proclamation
one of the female nurses and doctors who eventually gained acceptance in northern hospitals and field camps. She is a part of the Northern women who almost entirely replaced men as military nurses by the end of the war. She is the founder of the American Red Cross and a reformer who had organized nursing care for Union soldiers during the Civil War.
Clara Barton
Riots from the working class about the issues of the rich not getting drafted, the rich could pay to hire a substitute for the draft. This war/ drafting riot turns into a racial riot, where mostly African Americans were killed.
New York Draft Riots
The name called by Democratic leaders who supported the war effort of Northern Democrats who did not support the Union war effort. Such Democrats enjoyed considerable support in eastern cities and parts of the Midwest.
Copperheads
July 1863 battle that helped turn the tide for the Union in the Civil War. The Union victory at Pennsylvania, it helped eliminated the threat of European intervention in the war and positioned the Union to push farther into the South. Robert E Lee decided to take advantage of his victory at Chancellorsville and attack Northern soil to end the war quickly by crushing Union morale. This proved to be a turning point of the war; Lee was halted, the CSA never again attacked Union soil, and the Union army began winning the war.
Gettysburg
after a prolonged siege, Union troops forced Confederate forces to surrender at Mississippi, leading to Union control of the rich Mississippi River valley. This was also a turning point of the war; Grant cut off Southern access to Mississippi River and divided the South into two halves; Grant was then promoted to lead the entire Union army.
Vicksburg
A speech given by President Lincoln to inaugurate the federal cemetery at Pennsylvania in November 1863. In this speech, Lincoln expressed his belief that the war was a struggle for a “new birth of freedom.”
Gettysburg Address
