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Civil War, O'Dell, MTMS, Chapter 13
Term | Definition |
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blockade | Union strategy to defeat the South |
bounty | bonus paid to people to encourage them to enlist in the army |
Southern goal in the Civil War | to become an independent nation |
Yankee | nickname for a Union soldier |
Northern goal in the Civil War | to preserve the Union as one country |
draft | mandatory military service, avoided by paying someone to take your place |
Rebel | nickname for a Confederate soldier |
Copperheads | Peace Democrats in the North |
J.E.B. Stuart | Confederate cavalry leader |
David Farragut | Union commander who captured New Orleans |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union commander that was victorious at Shiloh |
“Stonewall” Jackson | solid Confederate commander that supplied reinforcements at Bull Run |
Robert E. Lee | headed the Confederate army for most of the Civil War |
William Tecumseh Sherman | Union commander who predicted a long war, led the “March to the Sea.” |
Jefferson Davis | president of the Confederacy |
Thirteenth Amendment | officially abolished slavery |
Emancipation Proclamation | freed the slaves in the Confederacy |
Clara Barton | famous for working with wounded soldiers |
Harriet Tubman | supported using African Americans as soldiers |
capitol of the Confederacy | Richmond, Virginia |
African-American volunteers | served in separate Union regiments |
border states | Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware |
“March to the Sea” | destructive Union march from Atlanta, Georgia to Savannah, Georgia |
Battle of Shiloh | Tennessee battle with enormous casualties on both sides; won by the Union |
Victory at Vicksburg | helped split the Confederacy and helped give the Union control of the Mississippi River; won by the Union |
First Battle of Bull Run | first large land battle of the war; it was won by the Confederates |
Battle of Gettysburg | site of Pickett’s Charge and the last time the Army of Northern Virginia attacked the North; won by the Union |
Battle of Antietam | bloodiest single day of the Civil War for casualties; Union claimed victory when the Confederates withdrew |
Appomattox Court House | where Lee surrendered to Grant effectively ending the Civil War |
Petersburg, Virginia | important railroad center near Richmond, Virginia |