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UNIT 11
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 West Virginia |
| John C. Breckinridge | southern democratic candidate in the election of 1860 |
| Stephen Douglas | northern democratic candidate in the election of 1860 |
| Abraham lincold | Republican candidate and winner of election of 1860 |
| Abraham Lincoln | opposed 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; South won; showed the war would be long and costly for both sides |
| anaconda plan | union strategy for winning the war; blockade the South, divide confederacy, capture Richmond the capital |
| Winfield scott | union general that was old but came up with the anaconda plan |
| blockade | prevent a nation from trading or communicating with another by sea |
| shiloh | battle in South West Tennessee that shocked the country with its casualties |
| antletam | fought in maryland, it is the single bloodiest day in American history |
| antletam | battle that stopped the first Confederate invasion north |
| antletam | lincoln used emancipation proclamation (so nice it rhymes) |
| Gettysburg | turning point of civil war and stopped Lee's invasion north |
| gettysburg | battle that convinced England and France to not ally with south |
| Gettysburg | Confederate army suffered so many casualties so they couldn't invade north (why the text blue?) |
| Vicksburg | capture of this city led to union getting Mississippi river |
| Vicksburg | battle that divided confederacy |
| Vicksburg | grant won this siege on JULY 4th WOO HOO and divided confederacy |
| March to the sea | union army led by William Sherman and waged war on ppl of georgia to make them support Confederates and lose their will (to live) |
| William tecumseh sherman | union general that used total warfare to destroy many things to force southern ppl to surrender |
| Appomattox courthouse | Lee and confeds finally surrendered to grant and union at his place on April 9 1865 |
| David Farragut | union admiral from TENNESSEE responsible for blockade on the confeds |
| Nathan Bedford Forrest (run Forrest run) | confeds calvary commander that used guerilla warfare on the union army in Mississippi and tennessee |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union commander that finally defeated Lee and won the war |
| Ulysses S Grant | Won the battle of forts Henry and donelson shiloh Vicksburg and chattanooga |
| Robert E Lee | confed general responsible for forces defending richmond |
| Lee | won the seven days battles, second Bull Run, Fredericksburg and chancellorsville |
| Stonewall Jackson | confed gen that saved the day at Bull Run and earned nick name |
| Emancipate proclamate | order issued by Lincoln that freed slaves officially in confed states but not border states |
| emancipate proclamate | officially allowed African Americans to enlist and fight the US army |
| Gettysburg address | brief speech given by Abraham Lincoln that summed up the goals of war and honored dead |
| 54th massachusetts | first all black regiment to fight in the union |
| nashville | 13th colored troops helped destroy the confed in tennessee |
| Sam watkins | a solider from Clarksville that kept journal about his experience as a confed |
| Elisha hunt rhodes | kept a diary about his life as a union soldier |
| fort wagner | 54th massachusets showed their bravery and earned respect of union when they charged this fort |
| Henry and donelson | capture of 2 forts helped union control the Tennessee river system |
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