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| Robert E. Lee | He was a Confederate general who led the army and was from Virginia. He died before he can vote. |
| Anaconda Plan- The North’s Plan | Blockade the South to stop all imports and exports, Capture Richmond, Virginia, and stop all ships on the Mississippi River. |
| Battle of Bull Run | On July 21, 1861, at Manassas Junction, on the banks of Bull Run, the armies met. The Confederate Army won which shocked the North. Lincoln replaced McDowell with General George B. McClellan. |
| General Robert Gould Shaw | He was very wealthy man from Massachusetts. He was the commander of 54th Massachusetts Regiment. |
| Conscription | also called draft. (the government can force you into the army) |
| Copperhead | Northerners called Peace Democrats opposed Lincoln’s war and wanted to end the fighting. Most only wanted to end the war but some promoted violence against the Union. |
| Clara Barton | a clerk at the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. She worked in the American branch of the International Red Cross, where nurses make band-aids and wrappings for the wounded soldiers at the Home Front. She served as president for more than 20 years. |
| Battle Hymn of the Republic | in 1861, Julia Ward Howe heard the song, “John Brown’s Body” and she wrote the words to “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”. |
| Vicksburg | Union General U.S. Grant’s troops won the battle against Confederates in Kentucky and Tennessee in 1862. Two years later the Confederate had strongholds at Port Hudson, Louisiana, and Vicksburg, Mississippi. President Abraham Lincoln said “Vicksburg is the key! The war can never be brought to a close until the key is our pocket.” |
| Battle of Gettysburg | a turning point in the Civil War. The battle had begun when the Confederates attempted a shoe factory in Gettysburg. |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | Southerners called him “Sherman the Brute”. In May 1864, He led his 60,000 troops to capture the port of Savannah during his “March to the Sea”. He destroyed everything like railroad tracks, buildings and private homes that have taken. |
| Appomattox Court House | This is where Lee surrendered to Grant. |
| Matthew Brady | he was a journalist and his exhibition of photographs called “The Dead at Antietam” describes the evidence of the awful realities in the war. |
| Monitor | One of two first ironclad ships to be used in battle. sank off the coast of North Carolina. The Confederates wanted to end the Northern blockade. |
| John Wilkes Booth | He shot Abraham Lincoln’s head at local theatre. |
| The 5 Border States | Missouri-on Mississippi River, Maryland-closets to D.C., Delaware- same thing, Kentucky- on the Ohio and on Mississippi River, and West Virginia- main tracks of Baltimore and Ohio railroad |
| July 21, 1861 | at Manassas Junction, on the banks of Bull Run, the armies met. |
| Winfield Scott | General from Mexican Civil War. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Grant was Union General. Republican (1868-1876) worst president. |
| 54th Massachusetts Regiment | The formation of the all blacks. More than 180,000 African Americans served in US military army. The Confederacy considered drafting slaves and free blacks in 1863 and 1864, but southerners opposed the enlistment of African Americans. |
| Andersonville | the most notorious camp for the Union prisoners. Prisoner of War Camp, where12, 000 Union prisoners died of disease and malnutrition. |
| Dixie | the song, written by a northern musician, Daniel Decatur is uncertain possibly came from the Mason-Dixie line that separated the North and the South. When the war ended in 1865, Lincoln ended a celebratory address to a crowd in the White House to play the song, “Dixie”. |
| Total war | striking civilians as well as military targets. |
| 13th Amendment | it was ratified in December 1865 and demands to outlaw slavery in United States. It will come after the war and abolish the slavery forever. |
| Land Grant College Act | gave states money from the sale of public lands to states for the establishment of universities that teach “agriculture and mechanical arts.” |
| Merrimack | one of the first two ironclad ships The Confederate destroyed the Merrimac to fall into the hands of the North. |
