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Ch 16 vocab
Civil War - grade 8
Term | Definition |
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Fort Sumter | When the Confederates attacked this fort in South Carolina, the Civil War began. |
Border States | These slave holding states did not join the Confederacy during the Civil War. These states included Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, West Virginia and Missouri. |
Iron clads | These are heavily armored warships. |
Cotton Diplomacy | The South's efforts to export cotton to Great Britain in exchange for their support during the Civil War. |
Emancipation | The freeing of slaves |
Emancipation Proclamation | This order, made by Lincoln, freed the slaves in Confederate states. |
Copperheads | This was the nickname given to northern Democrats who were against abolition. |
Habeus Corpus | This provided constitutional protection against unlawful imprisonment. |
Siege | This is a military operation where the enemy surrounds and cuts off supplies to an area trying to force their surrender |
Anaconda Plan | The North's plan to use naval blockades to stop goods from being imported or exported in the South |
Total War | This is the type of warfare in which the army destroys civilian resources and economy. |
General Winfield Scott | Union Army general that created the Anaconda Plan and the plan to take control of the Mississippi River. |
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson | This man was a trusted General of Robert E Lee |
George McClellan | This Union general was removed from his position because he failed to attack Lee's Confederate troops. |
Robert E Lee | This man was a very successful commander of the Confederate forces. At the end of the war he surrendered at the Appamattox Courthouse. |
Ulysses S Grant | This Union general led the successful battle at Gettysburg and helped the Union win the Civil War. |
David Farragut | This man was a Union admiral who was responsible for the capture and blockade of New Orleans. |
Clara Barton | This Civil War battlefield nurse also started the Red Cross. |
George Pickett | This Confederate general is famous for leading Pickett's charge. He lost this battle. |
William Tecumseh Sherman | This Union army officer led the "March to the Sea". |