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US History Ch. 17
Ch.17 Vocab JX
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Issued by Lincoln that freed all the slaves in Confederate territory. | Emancipation Proclamation |
| One of the first African-American regiments organized in the North. | 54th Massachusetts Regiment |
| Northern Democrats who favored peace with the South who were Lincoln's main opponents. | Copperhead |
| the draft | conscription |
| A cash payment | bounty |
| a tax on earnings | income tax |
| A new paper currency issued in 1862 known by this name because of their color. | greenback |
| Worked for the government when the Civil War began and organized a relief agency to help with the war effort. | Clara Barton |
| Clash in southern Pennsylvania and was the turning point of the war for the North where the South used Pickett's Charge and lost miserably. | Battle of Gettysburg |
| Confederate attack where Lee ordered to mount a direct attack on the middle of the Union line. It failed miserably. | Pickett's Charge |
| An unlikely war hero who became a brilliant general. | Ulysses S. Grant |
| A top student at West Point Military Academy and fought against the Union, unwillingly, but for Virginia. | Robert E. Lee |
| Important victories by Grant in the West that opened up the Mississippi River for travel deep into the South. | Siege of Vicksburg |
| A general of the Union who puched through the Deep South to Atlanta and the Atlantic coast. | William Tecumseh Sherman |
| A small Virginia town where Lee and Grant met to arrange the surrender. | Appomattox Court House |
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