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Unit 11 Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Election of 1860 | the election that led the southern states to leave the Union and form the Confederacy. |
Fort Sumter | the first shots of the Civil War were fired here; Confederates fired on Union soldiers that began the fighting. |
Jefferson Davis | President of the Confederate States of America |
Border States | Slave states that remained in the Union during the Civil War. |
Border States | Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, and eventually West Virginia |
John C. Breckinridge | Southern Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860. |
Stephen Douglass | Northern Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860. |
Abraham Lincoln | Republican Candidate and winner of the Election of 1860. |
Abraham Lincoln | opposed the spread of slavery into the territories. |
John Bell | presidential candidate in 1860 for the Constitutional Union Party. |
John Bell | stood for peaceful compromise to hold the Union together in 1860. |
First Bull Run | First major battle of the Civil War; Southern Victory; showed that the war would be long and costly for both sides. |
Anaconda Plan | Union strategy for winning the war; blockade the South, divide the Confederacy, and capture Richmond, the CS Capital. |
Winfield Scott | Union general that was old but he came up the Anaconda Plan. |
Blockade | to prevent a nation from trading or communicating with other nations by sea. |
Shiloh | battle in southwestern Tennessee that shocked the country with its heavy casualities. |
Antietam | Fought in Maryland, it is the single bloodiest day in American history. |
Antietam | battle that stopped the first Confederate invasion to the North |
Antietam | after this battle, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation |
Gettysburg | Turning point of the Civil War, stopped Lee's second invasion of the North |
Gettysburg | Battle that convinced England and France not to ally with the South. |
Gettysburg | Confederate army suffered so many casualities at this battle, they could not invade the North again. |
Vicksburg | Capture of this city led to the Union capturing the Mississippi River. |
Vicksburg | Battle that officially divided the Confederacy in half. |
Vicksburg | Grant won this siege on July 4th, thus dividing the Confederacy in half. |
March to the Sea | The Union army led by William Sherman waged total war on the people of Georgia to break their will to support the Confederate Army. |
William Tecumseh Sherman | Union General that used total warfare to destroy property, livestock and transportation systems to force the southern people to surrender. |
Appomattox Courthouse | Lee and the Confederate Army officially surrendered to Grant and the Union Army at his place on April 9th, 1865. |
David Farragut | Union admiral from Tennessee, responsible for the blockade of the Confederacy. |
Nathan Bedford Forrest | Confederate cavalry commander that used guerilla warfare on the Union Army in Mississippi and Tennessee. |
Ulysses S. Grant | Union commander that finally defeated Robert E. Lee and won the war. |
Ulysses S. Grant | Won the battles of Forts Henry, Donelson, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga for the Union. |
Robert E. Lee | Confederate general responsible for the forces defending Richmond. |
Robert E. Lee | Won the Seven Days Battle, Second Bull Run, Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville. |
Stonewall Jackson | Confederate general that saved the day at First Bull Run and earned a famous nickname. |
Emancipation Proclamation | Order issued by Lincoln that officially freed the slaves in the Confederate states but not in the border states. |
Emancipation Proclamation | Offficially allowed African Americans to enlist and fight in the US army. |
Gettysburg Address | brief speech given by Abraham Lincoln that summed up the goals of war and honored the dead. |
54th Massachusetts | the first all-black regiment to fight in the Union Army. |
Nashville | The 13th Colored Troop helped to destroy the Confederate Army in Tennessee at his battle. |
Sam Watkins | A soldier from Clarksville that kept a journal about his experiences in the Confederate Army. |
Elisha Hunt Rhodes | He kept a diary about life as a soldier in the Union Army |
Fort Wagner | The 54th Massachusetts showed their bravery and earned the respect of the Union Army when they charged this fort. |
Henry and Donelson | the capture of these 2 forts helped the Union control Tennessee River System. |