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| 90 Day War | The fast military strategy approved by Lincoln to prove secession wrong. It didn't work. |
| First Battle of Bull Run: North | Union hoped to capture Richmond, the capital of the confederacy and end the war quickly. They were defeated and knew it would be a long war. |
| First Battle of Bull Run: South | Confederates won and they went home feeling the war was over which resulted in less preparation and less troops for their sides. |
| Union General George McClellan | Hated by Lincoln. Great strategists but poor risk taker. Lincoln called him "the slows" or "tardy McClellan" |
| Peninsula Campaign | McClellan's plan to capture Richmond by using inland waterways. He was seen and routed by Confederates back to the ocean. |
| Total war | Military strategy that targets ALL components of the enemy even civillians, food, hospitals, etc. Strategy after the Peninsula loss. |
| Anaconda Plan | Union plan by General Scott. Blockade the coasts, capture Richmond, capture Mississippi river, cut Georgia and Carolinas to pieces. |
| Blockade | part of the Anaconda plan. Hurt British trade but they didnt complain because they might use it in the future. |
| Merrimack | Confederate iron clad ship that threatened Union blockade. Sunk by the confederates. |
| Monitor | Response to Confederate Merrimack. Iron clad ship. |
| Antietam | Northern most battle. Confederates lost after Lee's plans were discovered on the ground by the Union. |
| Britain and France | Both had in small measures helped the South until the Union victory at Antietam. |
| Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln's liberation of slaves on paper only since it only applied to those behind enemy lines. Border state slaves were NOT included. |
| Moral War | After the announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation, the war war became both a political and moral war. |
| 13th amendment | Legally banned slavery in the US by adding the provision to the Constitution in 1865. |
| 54th Regiment | Massachusetts voluntary Union soldiers. First all black soliders of the war. |
| Gettysburg | Over 100,000 men from both sides fought for three days. Confederates won the first two days but lost the battle on the third day. War will drag on for another two years but the battle is the death knell for the Confederacy. |
| Vicksburg | Battle win for the Union. The Mississippi was now controlled by the Union. |
| Northern peace democrats | Lincoln's biggest critic. They pushed for draw with the South and to let the secession states just go. |
| Union General William T. Sherman | Practiced total war. Broke the southern will and morale of both civillians and soldiers. |
| March to the Sea | 300 miles of Sherman's total war tactics from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia. In the end it saved lives as it brought the war to a faster close. |
| Copperhead | Nickname for antiwar Democrats who lived in the North. Lincoln's nemesis. |
| Clement L. Vallandigham | Worst of the "copperhead" democrats who opposed Lincoln and the war in the North. |
| Union Party | Election 1864. Republicans who joined with pro war Democrats and they formed the Union party. |
| Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's running mate in 1863 and soon to be president when Lincoln is assassinated. |
| George McClellan | Election 1864, McClellan ran for president against Lincoln in the Democrat party. |
| Atlanta capture | Lincoln was likely to lose the election until Atlanta was captured by Sherman. |
| John Wilkes Booth | Lincoln's assassin in Ford's Theater |
| Radical Republicans | Lincoln's plan was one of mercy for the south after war, the Radical Republicans was revenge. |
