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Jude 8th- Chapter 15

Chapter 15: The Civil War

TermDefinition
Abraham Lincoln President of the Union
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy
Anaconda Plan Union's war strategy to defeat the Confederacy; plan resembled the crushing death grip of a snake
Anaconda Plan Step 1 surround the South by sea to cut off its trade
Anaconda Plan Step 2 divide the Confederacy into section to prevent one region from helping another
Anaconda Plan Step 3 capture Richmond, VA which was the capital of the Confederacy and destroy the Confederate government
Rose Greenhow D.C. socialite and Southern supporter who used her connections to successfully warn the South about the Union's plans to attack them early in the war
Battle of Bull Run (battle) Union attack the Confederacy near Richmond; Confederate victory; Stonewall Jackson would not give up until the Union troops were overwhelmed
Battle of Antietam (battle) Confederate General Robert E. Lee surprises everyone by taking the fight to the North; Union claims victory; bloodiest day of the war
Emancipation Proclamation declared all slaves in all Confederate states to be free
Battle of Gettysburg (battle) Union and Confederate troops meet outside Gettysburg; Union victory, but staggering losses for both sides
Gettysburg Address Lincoln's speech at the dedication of the new cemetery in memory of the Union soldiers who died trying to protect the ideas of freedom upon which the nation was founded
Siege of Vicksburg Union troops fought for 6 weeks to gain control of the town on the Mississippi River; Union victory that now gave the North total control of the river and split the Confederacy in two
Mississippi River river that the Union wanted to gain control of to split the Confederacy in two
defense military tactic that the South knew they could use simply due to the physical size of their land
Union formal name of the North
Confederacy formal name of the South
New Orleans city that the Union captured without even firing a shot
Massachusetts 54th Regiment famous all Black regiment
Robert Gould Shaw colonel of the Massachusetts 54th Regiment
General Robert E. Lee Confederate general who brought the fight to the North on several occasions; ultimately surrendered to the Union
General Ulysses S. Grant Union general who believed in total war and won several key victories for the North; negotiated the terms of surrender with the South
winner of the Presidential election of 1864 Abraham Lincoln
Sherman's March Union General Sherman's goal was to destroy the last untouched supply base for the Confederacy as he and his troops marched through Georgia
Appomattox Court House village in Virginia that was the site of the Confederate surrender to Union forces under the command of General Grant
total war war on the enemy's will to fight and its ability to support a war
abolition the movement to end slavery; this goal was added to the Union's war effort half way through the war when he realized European nations that opposed slavery would never support the south
telegraphs used to communicate over long distances during the war
photographs first war to be documented in pictures
blockade naval military tactic that the Union used to block off most Southern ports to foreign ships, preventing them from importing or exporting anything
Stonewall Jackson Confederate general who did not give up when Union forces first attacked in the beginning of the Civil War; gained his nickname for holding firm like a "stone wall"
Richmond capital of the Confederacy
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