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ch 17 VOCAB AM
Question | Answer |
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january 1,1863 had a huge impact on the public only freed few slaves. abolitionist loved this idea | Emancipation Proclaimation |
one of the first african american regiments organized in the North, became famous july 1863 | 54th Maasachusetts Regiment |
lincolns main opponenets | copperhead |
--> aka draft | conscription |
cash payment given to men who served | bounty |
a tax on earrnings | income tax |
new paper currency the government made named after its color (green) | greenback |
was working for the government when the civil war began she organized a system to help war effort | clara barton |
july 1 lasted 3 days 90,000 union troops fought against confederate troops | Battle of Geetysburg |
a attack that was torn into pieces or a filed mission | picketts charge |
an unlikely war hero trained and educated at a acadamey looked poor | general ulysses s grant |
destined for great looked very formal | Robert E Lee |
july 4 1863 ulysses d grant defeated confederate troops | siege of vicksburg |
pushed through the ddep south to atlanta and the artic coast | william tecumseh sherman |
april 9,1865 Lee and Grant meet to arrange the surrender | appomattox court house |
january 1865 ---> was passed where lincoln urged congress to try to end slavery | 13th amendment |
crept into the balcony where the president sat and shot the president(lincoln) in the back of the head | john wilkes booth |