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new commander of the Union Army; delayed many battles for training, but was ineffective in battles; fired and rehired by Lincoln several times
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • George McClellan
Merrimac (former Union, now Southern Ship) against Monitor (Union ship) led to a draw, but good for North in preventing future naval attacks from South
  • Copperheads
  • Fort Sumter
  • Trent Affair
  • Monitor and Merrimac
Vice President of the Confederacy; valued states rights the most
  • Jefferson Davis
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Alexander H. Stephens
  • Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate commercial raider bought from GB that captured over 60 US ships; reparations paid for after war by GB
  • Greenbacks
  • Alabama
  • Laird Rams
  • Trent Affair
iron ram ships bought from the British by the Confederacy to use against North; GB decided not to continue selling because wanted to remain neutral
  • laird rams
  • greenbacks
  • trent affair
  • alabama
Blockade of Southern Ports by the U.S. navy (actual Anaconda Plan)Divide Confederacy in two by taking control of the Mississippi RiverRaise and train an army of 500,000 to take Richmond, VA
  • Homestead Act (1862)
  • Confiscation Acts
  • Anaconda Plan
  • Emancipation Proclamation
President of the Confederacy; tried to centralize power during the War
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Alexander H. Stephens
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Jefferson Davis
Lee forced to surrender to Grant at the court house
  • Gettysburg
  • Appomattox Court House
  • Vicksburg
  • Fort Sumter
Union suffered immense defeat under General Burnside against Lee
  • Gettysburg
  • Fredericksburg
  • Vicksburg
  • Antietam
paper currency issued by the US treasury
  • trent affair
  • habeas corpus
  • greenbacks
  • copperheads
larger population (with immigrants and freedmen)navystable economy (manufacturing) and bankcentral governmentbetter leaders
  • Wartime Advantages (North)
  • Ex Parte Milligan
  • habeas corpus
  • Monitor and Merrimac
successful Confederate general; victor at Battle of Bull Run
  • Ulysses S. Grant
  • Robert E. Lee
  • George Mcclellan
  • Thomas Stonewall Jackson
captured New Orleans as the head of the Union navy
  • Robert E. Lee
  • George Mcclellan
  • David Farragut
  • Ulysses S. Grant
defensive warshorter routes to traveloverseas demand for cotton (not true)more motivation for independence
  • Wartime Advantages (South)
  • Copperheads
  • Thomas Stonewall Jackson
  • Alexander H. Stephens
1866 case in which the Supreme Court ruled that the government had acted improperly in conducting military trials when civilian trials were available
  • Ex Parte Milligan
  • Habeas Corpus
  • Appomattox Court House
  • Trent Affair
Lincoln's assassinator
  • Appomattox Court House
  • Winfield Scott
  • Ex Parte Milligan
  • John Wilkes Booth
in the East, Lees army took the offensive in surprising the Union army at Gettysburg Pennsylvania; however, forced to retreat; bloodiest battle of the war
  • Vicksburg
  • Antietam
  • Gettysburg
  • Fredericksburg
Confederate diplomats James Mason and John Slidell traveled to GB on the Trent to gain GB support; Union ship captured Mason and Slidell and prisoners of war; angered GB who threatened to support South if not released--Lincoln gave in and let them go
  • Trent Affair
  • Greenbacks
  • Copperheads
  • Laird Rams
riots in which mostly Irish-American mobs attacked blacks and wealthy whites in response to the draft
  • habeas corpus
  • fort sumter
  • draft riots
  • trent affair
Cut off from vital supplies by Southern control; Lincoln announced he was sending food to the garrison and South attacked starting the Civil War
  • Gettysburg
  • Antietam
  • Fort Sumter
  • Fredericksburg
Northerners opposed to the war
  • Copperheads
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Greenbacks
  • Trent Affair
led by Union veteran William Tecumseh Sherman, 100,00 men marched through the South burning and destroying everything in their path to crush Southern spirit
  • Bull Run
  • George McClellan
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Sherman's March
requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court; suspended by Abraham Lincoln during war to capture suspected spies for the South
  • habeas corpus
  • carpe diem
  • greenbacks
  • appomattox court house
Lincoln v. McClellan (Democratic position to end the War)--Lincoln won in a landslide, but the popular vote was close
  • election of 1864
  • election of 1859
  • election of 1764
  • election of 1863
encouraged states to use the sale of federal land grants to maintain agricultural and technical colleges
  • Morrill Land Grant Act (1863)
  • Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
  • Morrill Land Grant Act (1867)
  • Morrill Land Grant Act (1962)
official prohibition of slavery in the United States
  • Winfield Scott
  • greenbacks
  • Thirteenth Amendement
  • David Farragut
commander of the South's eastern forces; defeated the Union in the Peninsula Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run
  • Jefferson Davis
  • George Mcclellan
  • Robert E. Lee
  • Ulysses S. Grant
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