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Period 6 Unit 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 3 Day battle that was the Turning Point of the War | Battle of Gettysburg |
| Andrew Johnson | President after Lincoln's assassination, did not get along with Congress, was impeached but stayed in office |
| Ulysses S. Grant | eventually placed in charge of all Union forces and named commander of the Army of the Potomac. President Lincoln liked him, quote, "He Fights!" |
| How did the Union take the Mississippi and why? | by taking New Orleans and then Vicksburg following a 47 day siege, this allowed the Union control of the Mississippi which divided the Confederacy |
| Stonewall Jackson | Robert E Lee's right hand man. He helped lead the Confederates to victory at Bull Run, but later in the war was shot and died from pneumonia |
| Northern advantages | population, manufacturing, money, railroads, food |
| Anaconda Plan | Union's battle plan for victory included blockading southern ports to cut off supplies and resources, destroying the railroad lines, taking the Mississippi to divide and conquer the Confederacy |
| Reconstruction | plan to rebuild the South physically and politically |
| Radical Republicans | vocal group in Congress who thought they should be in charge of Reconstruction, not the President, and wanted to help the freed slaves |
| total warfare | war on civilians and property not just military targets to achieve an unconditional surreneder |
| Rutherford B Hayes | became president in 1877 as a result of a compromise that ended Reconstruction |
| Battle of Bull Run | first real engagement of the war, Confederates won, but both sides learned this war would not be easy or quick |
| Freedman's Bureau | organization to help poor whites and freed slaves with food, clothes, hospitals, schools, etc |
| Sharecroppers | former slaves would farm a plot of land belonging to their former slave master and pay rent on the land with a portion of their crops |
| Home Rule | Southern Democrats took control of political offices in the south and restricted African American rights and social programs |
| Gettysburg Address | very famous speech given by President Lincoln after the Gettysburg battle in which he states the famous phrase, Government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth |
| Antietam | bloodies one day battle with 23,000 casualties |
| end of the war | the war ended on April 9, 1865 with Robert E Lee (for the South) surrendering to Ulysses S Grant (for the North) |
| Southern advantages | Robert E Lee and other military leadership, home ground advantage, defensive war |
| George B McClellan | after Robert E Lee turned Lincoln down, this man was put in charge of the Army of the Potomac. However, he frustrated Lincoln greatly as he was, according to Lincoln, "too cautious" |
| What was Lincoln's objective in fighting the Civil War? | His primary objective was to preserve the Union, it wasn't until he issued his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 that abolishing slavery was also the objective |
| Andersonville | Confederate Prisoner of War camp in Georgia that housed captured Union soldiers, the conditions were terrible and the death rate very high |
| John Wilkes Booth | Actor and Confederate sympathizer who shot Lincoln in the head while Lincoln attended a play at Ford's Theater |
| Sherman's March to the Sea | March from Atlanta to Savannah in 1864 in which total warfare was used and everything was burned and destroyed in order to make the southerns feel the hell of war and surrender |
| Emancipation Proclamation | issued by Lincoln in January 1863 and freed the slaves in the Confederacy as Union troops advanced into the rebel states |
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