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Ch. 16 SS Notecards
Important Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the states between the North and the South that were divided over whether to stay in the UNion or join the Confederacy | border states |
| rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by the Constitution | state's rights |
| to cut off an area by means of troops or warships to stop supplies or people from coming in or going out; to close off a country's ports | blockade |
| the position of attacking or the attack itself | offensive |
| a ship that sails into and out of a blockaded area | Blockade runner |
| A Union naval ship that Northern forces had abandoned when Confederate soldiers seized that naval shipyard that to South used to fight the Monitor in an ironclad warship battle | Merrimack |
| armored naval vessel | ironclad |
| The Union warship described as "looking like a tin can on a shingle" that the North used to fight the Merrimack in an ironclad warship battle | Monitor |
| a military person killed, wounded, or captured | casualty |
| to free from slavery | emancipate |
| Lincoln's plan to issue and order freeing all enslaved people in the Confederacy that he signed on January 1, 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation |
| A constitutional amendment passed by the Republican leaders in Congress in 1865 that abolished slavery in the United States | Thirteenth Amendment |
| to give official approval to | ratify |
| a legal order for an inquiry to determine whether a person had been lawfully imprisoned | habeas corpus |
| the selection of persons for a required military service | draft |
| money given as a reward, such as to encourage enlistment in the army | bounty |
| a piece of US paper money first issued by the North during the Civil War | Greenback |
| a continuous rise in the price of goods and services | inflation |
| occupying a strong defensive position | entrenched |
| Lincoln's two-minute speech where he beautifully expressed what the war had come to mean and helped the war-weary Americans to look beyond the images of the battlefield and focus on their shared ideals | Gettysburg Address |
| war on all aspects of the enemy's life | total war |
| president of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis |
| a Confederate soldier, so called because of opposition to the established government | Rebel |
| Union soldier | Yankee |
| the nickname for General Thomas Jackson, who was seen holding out heroically like a stone wall in the First Battle of Bull Run | "Stonewall" Jackson |
| the person Lincoln appointed to be general of the Army of Potomac | George B. McClellan |
| the Union army of the East | Army of Potomac |
| the Union commander at Cairo and Vicksburg who eventually became the leader of the Union army | Ulysses S. Grant |
| the person who led the Union naval forces on April 25, 1862 to New Orleans, Louisiana, and captured it | David Farragut |
| the Confederate general who took command of the army opposing McClellan in the Seven Days' Battles | Robert E. Lee |
| General Lee's cavalry leader who performed a daring tactic by leading his 1200 troops in a circle around the Union army, gathering vital information about Union positions and boosting southern morale | James E.B. Stuart |
| the Union general who replaced General McClellan in November 1862 after he was removed because he failed to follow up his victory at the Battle of Antietam; led the Union army in the Battle of Fredericksburg | Ambrose Burnside |
| the most famous woman who had helped hundreds escape slavery by means of the Underground Railroad and spied behind Confederate lines | Harriet Tubman |
| one of the most famous African American regiments led by white abolitionists | 54th Massachusetts |
| a women who took of new responsibilities and lost members of her family during the war | Mary Chesnut |
| a woman spy who entertained Union leaders in Washington D.C., picking up information about Union plans that she passed on to the South - she was caught, convicted for treason, and exiled | Rose O'Neal Greenhow |
| a woman spy in Front Royal, Virginia who informed Confederate generals of the army movements in the Shenandoah Valley | Belle Boyd |
| a woman | |
| a woman in the North who organized large numbers of women to serve as military nurses | Dorothea Dix |
| A Northerner who became famous for her work with wounded soldiers on the battlefield | Clara Barton |
| a woman who established a hospital for soldiers in Richmond, virginia | Sally Tompkins |
| Robert E. Lee's army who seemed unbeatable and were very successful at the Battle of Fredericksburg | Army of Northern Virginia |
| a general who replaced General Burnside after he abdicated command | Joseph Hooker |
| a general who replaced General Hooker when he failed to attack Lee's army | George Meade |
| a general who, with General Grant, won an important victory at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and started the March to the Sea | William Tecumseh Sherman |
| the capital of the Confederacy, which was about 100 miles from the Union capital, Washington D.C. | Richmond |
| a state formed in 1861 that consists of 48 Virginia counties, and was admitted to the Union in 1863 | West Virginia |
| the location of the naval shipyard that the Confederate forces seized | Norfolk, Virginia |
| the place that Lee struck and won another victory before Hooker could mount another attack | Chancellorsville |
| the place located on a high bluff above the Mississippi River, which the Union needed to capture in order to gain control of the river | Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| an important railroad center; if captured, Richmond wuld be cut off from the rest of the Confederacy | Petersburg |
| the place where David Farragut led a Union fleet | Mobile Bay |
| the place where the March to the Sea was heading to | Savannah, Georgia |
| a small Virginia village where Lee surrendered to General Grant on April 9, 1865 | Appomattox Courthouse |
| the first major battle of the war fought in northern Virginia where 30,000 inexperienced Union troops, commanded by Gen. McDowell, attacked a smaller, equally inexperienced Confederate force led by Gen. Beauregard - Confederate victory | First Battle of Bull Run |
| a surprise battle launched on the Union troops by the Confederate forces led by Albert Sidney Johnston and Beauregard; lasted 2 days, with some of the most bitter, bloody fighting of the war - Union victory | Battle of Shiloh |
| battle started by McClellan when he waited on a peninsula b/w the York and James rivers to attack instead of attacking Richmond directly as Lincoln asked; failed b/c chances to attack vanished as he readied his troops and evaluated the enemy | Peninsular Campaign |
| the single bloodiest day of the entire war where the Union and the Confederate armies clashed near Sharpsburg, Maryland; 6000 dead and 17,000 wounded - stalemate | Battle of Antietam |
| a battle on December 13, 1862, where Confederate soldiers were entrenched on a number of hills and Union General Burnside failed to overcome Lee's troops | Battle of Fredericksburg |
| 3-day battle that began when Union forces raided a Rebel town and retreated, but a counterattack saved then from a rebel attack the next day - Lee launches an attack on day 3 which failed at Prickett's Charge - Confederate army lost | Battle of Gettysburg |
| the last attack of Gettysburg, led by General Prickett, where the Union army defeated the Rebels | Prickett's Charge |
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