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Ch. 17 Vocab. SA
Question | Answer |
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an executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all regions in rebellion against the Union. | Emancipation Proclamation |
one of the first African-American regiments organized to fight for the Union in the Civil War. | 54th Massachusetts Regiment |
Abraham Lincoln's main political opponents; they favored peace with the South. | Copperheads |
a law that required men to serve in the military or be drafted. | conscription |
a reward or cash payment given by a government. | bounty |
a tax on earnings. | income tax |
paper currency issued by the federal government during the Civil War. | greenback |
an 1863 battle in the Civil War in which the Union defeated the Confederacy, ending hopes for a Confederacy victory in the North. | Battle of Gettysburg |
General George Pickett led a direct attack on Union troops during the 1863 Civil War battle at Gettysburg; the attack failed. | Pickett's Charge |
an 1863 Union victory in the Civil War that enabled the Union to control the entire Mississippi River. | Siege of Vicksburg |
the Virginia town where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in 1865, ending the Civil War. | Appomattox Court House |
an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1865, banning slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States. | Thirteenth Amendment |
organized a relief agency to help the soldiers, found the American Red Cross. | Clara Barton |
general that won the first major Union victories and defeated Lee. | Ulysses S. Grant |
a very good soldier of the Confederacy that fought only because of Virginia. | Robert E. Lee |
from Tennessee, he took Atlanta and destroyed everything that would support the Confederacy through Georgia on his march and later took Savannah. | William Tecumseh Sherman |
assassinated president Lincoln so was killed. | John Wilkes Booth |