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Chpt.16 Vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| fort sumter | union fort in the harbor of charleston SC |
| confederacy | nation formed by southern virginia |
| Robert E. Lee | confederate general commander of the army of northern virginia |
| border states | slave states that borederd states in which slavery was illegal |
| Anaconda plan | union strategy to defeat the confederacy |
| first battle of bull run | first major battle of the civil war. |
| Thomas J. Jackson | confederate general at bull run |
| uprising | rebellion |
| populous | heavily populated |
| the monitor | union ironclad ship |
| the merrimack | confederate ironclad ship later renamed Virginia. |
| enlist | join to the armed forces |
| contractors | private suppliers |
| hygiene | conditions and practices that promote health |
| George McClellan | commander of the union army in the east ; Lincoln didnt like him. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | union general who won battles in the west. |
| Battle of Shiloh | bloody battle in Tennessee won by Grant. |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | union general at battle of shiloh. |
| David Farragut | union naval commander who captured New Orleans |
| Seven Days' Battle | Confederate victory in Virginia, during which Lee stopped union campign against Richmond. |
| Battle of Antietam | battle in Maryland tht ended Lee's first invasion of the North. |
| plunder | steal from ransack |