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Ch 17.1
Mrs. Smiley's Chapter 17.1
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| Robert E. Lee | Commander of Confed. Army |
| VA, NC, AR, TN | Name of states that seceded after 1861 |
| Martial Law | rule by army |
| problems in the South faced during the war | food and weapons shortages; inflation |
| Lee decisive victory | Fredricksburg & Chancellorville |
| Gettysburg Address purpose | preserve the union |
| General Grant planned to end the war by... | destroying the souths ability to fight |
| Rose Greenhow | Entertained Union leaders in home and spied for the South |
| weakness in the south | few railroads |
| South's war plan | wearing down the union army |
| Monitor and Merrimack | ironclad ships |
| Battle of Bull Run | more training |
| Emancipation Proclomation | abolition of slavery |
| Wilmot Proviso | outlaw slavery in the west |
| Abolitionists | slavery outlawed |
| Popular Sovereignty | voters should decide about slavery |
| Free Soil Party | Antislavery Whigs & Democrats |
| Free soiler candidate for president in 1848 | Van Buren |
| Fugitive | runaway slave |
| civil war | conflict between people of same country |
| arsenal | gun warehouse |
| 2 southern generals | Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson |
| 1st state to seceed | South Carolina |
| Gen. who invaded Antietam | General Lee |
| Gen. at the Battle of Gettysburg | Meade |
| Gen. captured and burned Atlanta | Sherman |
| General Lee surrendered where... | Appomatox Courthouse, VA |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beacher Stowe |
| Union goals at beginning of war? | block southern ports, control Mississippi, capturing Richmond |
| battles confederacy won | chancellorsville, bull run, fredericsburg |
| Union-1818-probs between free and slave states | Missouri |
| slaver prohibitied via the MO Compromise | slavery prohibitied north of MO |
| northerns fear from spread of slavery in the west | war with Mexico in 1846 |
| Civil War helped northern economy | clothing, ammunitiion. and other industries |
| issue of states rights | collect taxes |
| North and South passed draft laws | needed more soldiers |
| turning point in war | Battle of Gettysburg |
| Porposed the MO Comp | Henry Clay |
| example of sectionalism | wide spread support of slavery |
| president of confederacy | jefferson davis |
| beginning of civil war | april 9, 1865 |
| northerns who supported the south | copperheads |
| slave who fought for his freedom | dred scott |