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| copperheads | Democrats in the North who opposed the Civil War and the goals of President Lincoln. |
| Habeas Corpus | A protection against unlawful imprisonment written in the Constitution. It would allow the imprisoned people to be brought into a court to see if their imprisonment was legal. |
| Military Draft "Poor Man's Fight" | A requirement for service that was established for both sides to meet the needs for troops. In the South, white men between 18 and 35 had to serve, while in the North, men from 20 to 45 had to serve. |
| Clara Barton | Started the American Red Cross |
| blockade | a strategy to prevent things from coming in or going out of and area. This strategy was a very important part of the Union’s plan. They wanted to cut off the South’s supply of manufactured goods, as well as block the overseas sale of cotton. |
| Dorothea Dix | Social reformer who became the head of the Union army nurses. |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | America’s first female physician. During the Civil War she trained other women so they could be nurses for the Union’s army. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | Leader of the Union Army |
| Robert E. Lee | Leader of the Confederate Army |
| Advantages of the North | Twice as much railroad track and farmland than the South. The North had a much greater population, as much as two thirds of the population lived in the North. The North had more resources which made the North eligible to provide food, area, and supplies to their larger army. |
| Advantages of the South | Fighting in their own territory with help from some locals, and most of the nations most experienced military officers were from the South. |
| Strategies of the North | To isolate the confederacy by blocking southern seaports and cut off their supply of manufactured goods and put blockades on the sales of cotton overseas. |
| Strategies of the South | To just defend their land until the North was tired of fighting. The South also planned on having Britain support them because of Britain's need of cotton from their textile mills. |
| Maryland under Martial Law because... | Southern sympathizers destroyed railroads and telegraph lines. This state was placed under military rule to keep order. |
| Who was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation? | Slaves who were in Confederate Territory. Since the Confederacy did not follow the US Constitution, they didn't listen. It actually freed few slaves, but started the momentum. |
| Problems faced by African American soldiers? | They were paid less, if they were caught they could be sold back into slavery, and some who were caught were sometimes killed. |
| "Poor Man's Fight" | A criticism of the draft that indicated that wealthy people could buy their way out of service, while the poor had no option. |
| 13th Amendment | banned slavery and all involuntary servitude |
| 14th Amendment | defined a citizen as any person born in or naturalized in the United States, overturning the Dred Scott V. Sandford (1857) Supreme Court ruling stating that Black people were not eligible for citizenship. |
| 15th Amendment | prohibited governments from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote based on race, color, or past servitude. |
