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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 to begin 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 Douglas | Northern Democratic candidate in the Election of 1860 |
Abraham Lincoln | Republican candidate and winner of the Election of 1800 |
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 a 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 with the Anaconda Plan |
Blockade | to prevent a nation from trading or communicating with another nation by sea |
Shiloh | battle in southwestern Tennessee that shocked the country with its heavy casualties |
Antietam | Fought in Maryland, it is the bloodiest day in American history |
Antietam | Battle that stopped the first Confederate invasion to the North |
Antietam | After this battle, 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 to not ally with the South |
Gettysburg | Confederate army suffered so many casualties 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 4, thus officially 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 9, 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 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 and 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 Battles, Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, 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 the border states |
Emancipation Proclamation | Officially 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 the war and honored the dead |
54th Massachusetts | the first all-black regiment to fight in the Union Army |
Nashville | the 13th Colored Troops helped to destroy the Confederate Army in Tennessee at this 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 two forts helped the Union the Tennessee River system |