| A | B |
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| civilian | people who were not in the army |
| emancipate | means to set free |
| tax-in-kind | a tax paid with goods instead of money |
| draft | law requiring men of a certain age to serve in the military |
| habeas corpus | the right to have a hearing before being jailed |
| inflation | the rise in prices caused by an increase of the amount of money in circulation |
| bounty | payments to men who enlisted in the military |
| profiteer | people who overcharged the government for goods that were desperately needed for war |
| Gettysburg Address | speech givin by President Lincoln in 1863 after the Battle of Gettysburg |
| Emancipation Proclamation | President Lincoln's declaration freeing slaves in the Confederacy |
| Battle of Bull Run | the battle that showed both sides that their soldiers needed training; showed that the war was going to be long and bloody |
| Merrimack | the warship that was abandoned by the Union near Portsmouth, Virginia |
| Robert E. Lee | refused to lead the Union army but later became commander of the Confederate army |
| Stonewall Jackson | a general who was remarked as standing "like a stone wall" by a Confederate officer |
| Ulysses S. Grant | a general who captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February of 1862 |
| Battle of Shiloh | one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War |
| George B. McClellan | Originally the top northern general. Could build armies remarkable, but did not like to fight and loved to insult Lincoln. |
| General Sherman | Grants right hand man. Was sent to attack civilian targets in the south- Sherman's march to the south. |
| Jefferson Davis | The president of the Confederacy |
| Lincoln | President of the union who wanted to reunite the country, he freed all the slaves in the south. |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts for guns. |
| Gettysburg | Pickets Charge by the south resulted in northern victory |
| Appomattox Courthouse | Where General Robert E. Lee outnumbered and demorilized surrenders to General Grant who gave generious terms. |
| Sherman neck ties | Railroad ties twisted around trees. |
| Union War Plans | 1) blocakge of southern ports 2) control the Mississippi River 3) Capture the southern capital of Richmond Virginia |
| Union war plans after Grant (Total War) | Attacking civilian targets in order to crush the souths will to fight |
| Southern Plans | To fight a defensive war |
| Fort Sumter | Were Robert Anderson of the Union army was fired upon by P.G.T Beauegard and J.E. Johnstone. |
| The end of the war | At Petersburg were General Robert E. Lee and General George Meade clashed the "battle of the crater" which was caused by Union General Ambrose Burnside who decided it would be smart to place tnt under confederate lines and explode it. When the tnt was detonated it left an gigantic crater in the Confederate lines but in reality did nothing good for the union besides make a big hole. The war ended with the retreat by Lee from Petersburg to Appomattox were he later surrendered at the courhouse on April 9, 1865 |
| strength and weaknesses of each side | north great industry, better railroads, and were attacking, the south was defending and knew the land they had superior generals and confederate soldiers knew how to shoot very well |
| How the underground railroad worked/ how slaves communicated | Secret codes in songs and quilts |
| Why did the south want to go to war | They did not want the north to be able to tell then what to do (free slaves) their states rights were in jeopardy |
