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Chapter 17 Vocab.
Chapter 17 Vocab. EL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in all territories rebelling against the Union. | Emancipation Proclamation |
| One of the first African-American regiments organized in the North which insisted on fighting without pay. It earned great fame in July 1863 leading a heroic attack at Fort Wagner. | 54th Massachusetts Regiment |
| Northern Democrats who favored peace with the South, they were Lincoln's main opponents. | Copperhead |
| A law that required men to serve in the military or drafted. | Conscription |
| A reward or cash payment given by a government. | Bounty |
| A tax on earnings. | Income tax |
| A new paper currency issued by the federal government during the Civil War, named for their color. It helped the Union economy and helped pay for the war. | Greenback |
| She organized a relief effort to help with the war effort. made food for the soldiers, and tended to the wounded and dying. Called "the angel of the battlefield," she later founded the American Red Cross. | Clara Barton |
| A decisive Union victory in southern Pennsylvania (July 1-3, 1863) that ended hopes for a Confederate victory in the North. | Battle of Gettysburg |
| A direct infantry assault ordered by Gen. Lee and led by Gen. George Pickett on July 3, 1863 at the middle of the Union line; it failed. | Pickett's Charge |
| A brilliant general on the battlefield who won the first major Union victories of the Civil War. | Ulysses S. Grant |
| A leading Confederate general who had won praise for his actions in the Mexican War, he had no wish to fight the Union but felt he had to stand by Virginia. | Robert E. Lee |
| A Union victory (May 1863-July 4, 1863) by General Ulysses S. Grant which granted the Union full control of the Mississippi River. | Siege of Vicksburg |
| A Union general who led a namesake "March to the Sea" from September 1864 to December 1864, in which he marched southward from Tennessee to Savannah, Georgia waging total war. | William Tecumseh Sherman |
| The small Virginia town where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, ending the Civil War. | Appomattox Court House |
| An amendment to the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1865, banning slavery and involuntary servitude in the United States. | Thirteenth Amendment |
| The Confederate supporter who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. | John Wilkes Booth |
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