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History chapter 16
lesson 1
Term | Definition |
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Fort Sumter | federal outpost in Charleston SC, that was attacked by Confederate troops and began the civil war in 1861 |
Border States | Delaware Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri were slave states that didn't join the confederacy |
Elizabeth Blackwell | first woman to get a licence in medicine, form Rochester NY |
Winifeld Scott | came up with the plan to destroy S economy w/ naval blockade of S ports and gain control of MI river to divide south - |
Cotton Diplomacy | idea that GB would support CSA because it needed raw cotton to supply textile indrustry |
Union Color | blue |
Confederates Color | gray |
U. S. Sanitary Commission | Elizabeth Blackwell organized a group that pressured President Lincoln to form this |
Henry Bellows | ran U. S. Sanitary Commission |