A | B |
Naval warships would prevent merchant vessels from entering or leaving a port. | Blockade |
a Virginia, who had an outstanding military record in the army, offered command of Union Army | Robert E. Lee |
Union plan to: 1. blockade ports, 2. take control of the Mississippi River | Anaconda Plan |
states such as: Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland that had slavery and did not succeed | Border State |
a Virginian and General who's unit stood their ground at Bull Run | Stonewall Jackson |
commanding General (after Bull Run) of the Army of the Potomac | George McClellan |
Union General and future President charged with gaining control over the Mississippi | Ulysses Grant |
battle in southwest Tennessee that lasted for 2 days, hurt Grant's reputation | Shiloh |
escaped slaves/refugees who came under the protection of the Union Army; captured war supplies | Contraband |
September 1862, the bloodiest single day of the Civil War, Union Victory | Antietam |
freed all enslaved people in states still in rebellion after Jan.1,1863 | Emancipation Proclamation |
mandates that Black soldiers be accepted into the Military | Militia Act |
all Black regiment (formed after the Emancipation Proclamation) | 54th Massachusetts |
tax based on individual income | Income Tax |
sold by the government, promise to receive more funds at a future date | Bond |
made western lands available at very low cost to those who would farm it | Homestead Act |
a draft | Conscription |
protects a person from being held in jail without being charged with a specific crime | habeas corpus |
rise in the price of goods | inflation |
a nurse, founded the American branch of the International Red Cross | Clara Barton |
military tactic in which an army surrounds, bombards and cuts off all supplies to an enemy position in order to force its surrender | Siege |
city on the Mississippi River that become under siege May 22, 1863 until their surrender on July 4, 1863 | Vicksburg |
a 3 day battle at a town in Pennsylvania; July 1,1863 until July 3,1863: result was a Union Victory | Gettysburg |
General in command of the attack on the Union Center at Gettysburg | George Pickett |
a speech to dedicate a cemetery for fallen soldiers | Gettysburg Address |
attacking civilian and military targets | Total War |
Union General given command; who ordered his men to destroy anything of potential value on his "March to the Sea" | William Sherman |
abolishes slavery; except as a punishment for a crime | 13th Amendment |
famous actor; assassin of President Lincoln | John Wilkes Booth |
Photographer and Journalist during the Civil War | Mathew Brady |
gave money from teh sale of public lands to states for the establishment of universities that taught "agriculture and mechanical arts" | Land Grant College Act |