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SS CW Vocab
Vocab for a Civil War Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Robert E. Lee | A confederate General who led the Army of Northern Virginia against the Union |
| Martial Law | Rule by the Army instead of Government |
| Border States | States that were on the border of the South and North. Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Maryland |
| Stonewall Jackson | Thomas Jackson, a confederate General, had his troops stand their ground at Bull Run like a stonewall. |
| Battle of Bull Run | A Confederate victory and was the first battle. Showed both sides the soldiers needed training. |
| George McClellan | Union Commander of the Army of the Potomac. Trained the soldiers. |
| Merrimack | A confederate iron clad ship. Invincible against the Union's ships. |
| Monitor | The Union iron clad naval ship. Easier to maneuver than the Merrimack |
| Battle of Antietam | A day long battle in which 13,000 people were killed or injured. The Confederates retreated. Technically Union victory. |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | Confederacy victory and Union's worst defeat. During 1862 Confederates gunned down Union soldiers. |
| Battle Chancellorsville | Lee and Jackson teamed up in thick forest outside Chancellorsville. The nervous soldiers accidentally shot Jackson. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Union General trying to seize control of the Mississippi |
| Battle of Shiloh | A two day battle in Tennessee. The Confederates won the first day, but Union won the battle. |
| Discrimination | Denies the same treatment and rights to anyone - in this case, black people. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Freed slaves in the Confederacy. Issued by Abe Lincoln. |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | Famous all black regiment from Massachusetts, led attack at Fort Wagner |
| Fort Wagner | Near Charleston, attacked by 54th MA. Half of Army was killed. Confederate victory. July 18,1863 |
| Draft | A law requiring certain people to serve in the military. |
| Income Tax | A tax on a person's earnings. |
| Inflation | a rise in prices and decrease in the value of money. |
| Profiteer | A person who takes advantage of a crisis to make money. |
| Copperheads | People from the North who disagreed with using force to keep the Southern states in the Union. |
| Loreta Janeta Velazquez | A woman who fought in the Battle of Bull Run and Shiloh. Confederate. |
| Rose Greenhow | A woman spy for the South. She was exiled when she was caught. She was an entertainer for Union leaders. Lived in D.C. |
| Clara Barton | A nurse in the Civil War, later founded the Red Cross. |
| Sally Tompkins | A southern woman who set up hospitals in Richmond, Virginia. |
| Siege | A military blockade of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender. |
| Battle of Gettysburg | A union victory that took place over three days in July of 1863 in southern PA. Turning point of the war. |
| Gettysburg Address | The speech President Lincoln gave after the Battle of Gettysburg. It was 10 sentences and took 3 minutes to say. |
| Phillip Sheridan | A Union General sent by Grant to destroy the Shenandoah Valley. |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | A Union General sent by Grant to take Atlanta and destroy everything in his path to the ocean. |
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