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DSST Civil War Vocab
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1. (N) George McClellan vs. (S) Robert Lee - Strategic northern victory - Turned tide of war in favor of north. - Bloodiest battle in U.S. History - encouraged Lincoln to give Emancipation Proclamation - and prevented Lee from invading the North
Antietam
United States Sanitary Commission
blockade runners
Anaconda Plan
2. White leading commander of the first black regiment - 54th Massachusetts
Robert Shaw
20 slaves law
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Underground Railroad
3. Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An 'angel' in the Civil War - treated the wounded in the field.
inflation in the South
Robert Shaw
Chickamauga
Clara Barton
4. Robert E. Lee sent _______'s corps to sweep Union forces from the Valley and - if possible - to menace Washington - D.C. - hoping to compel Grant to dilute his forces against Lee around Petersburg - Virginia
Marye's Heights
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Anaconda Plan
Jubal Early
5. Small - fast ships that delivered supplies to the Confederacy.
General Grant
First Manassas
blockade runners
Chickamauga
6. Failed attempt by Union troops to take a sea route into the Confederate capital of Richmond.
Shiloh
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
Peninsular campaign
greenbacks
7. In Virginia where Lee daringly divided his numerically inferior army and sent Stonewall Jackson to attack the Union flank.
Underground Railroad
chancellorsville tactic
Jubal Early
CSS Virginia
8. Blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Robert Shaw
blockade runners
Anaconda Plan
Peninsular campaign
9. Marched from Atlanta to the Sea destroying everything; Total War
Jubal Early
54th Massachusetts Infantry
General Sherman
bread riots
10. [aka USS Merrimack] yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into an ironclad - sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads.
Chancellorsville
Wendell Phillips
CSS Virginia
Underground Railroad
11. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
Underground Railroad
United States Sanitary Commission
Trent Affair
conscription
12. Freed all slaves in the states that had seceded - after the Northern victory at the Battle of Antietam. Lincoln had no power to enforce the law.
Anaconda Plan
Robert Shaw
emancipation proclamation
Jubal Early
13. Excused slaveholders owning twenty or more slaves from being drafted for service
Jefferson Davis
20 slaves law
inflation in the South
Jubal Early
14. Denounced the president for being a first rate second rate man for delaying on the emacipation
blockade runners
Chancellorsville
Wendell Phillips
Clara Barton
15. (N) General Joseph Hooker vs. (S) General Robert E. Lee and General Thomas J. Jackson - considered by many to be Lee's greatest battle - Result(s): Confederate victory
emancipation proclamation
Chancellorsville
Marye's Heights
First Manassas
16. One of the South's greatest generals during the Civil War - he possessed an uncanny - almost intuitive grasp of Gen. Robert E. Lee's orders - killed at the Battle of Chancellorsville (1863) when he was accidentally shot by one of his own soldiers.
Chickamauga
Second Manassas
General Jackson
General Lee
17. (N) McDowell vs. (S) Beauregard/ Jackson - CSA won - 1st Battle
CSS Virginia
Chickamauga
Captain Henry Wirz
First Manassas
18. Union forces nearly broke the Confederate lines - but the Union Army made 14 unsuccessful charges against the stone wall at ________ ____________.
19. (N) Pope vs. (S) Lee/Jackson - This was the decisive battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign. Result(s): Confederate victory
Captain Henry Wirz
General Grant
United States Sanitary Commission
Second Manassas
20. President of the Southern Confederate States after their succession from the Union - struggled to form a solid government
Jefferson Davis
Antietam
emancipation proclamation
Second Manassas
21. Printing paper money - but prices on necessities like food and such skyrocketed and the people rioted.
General Lee
General Grant
inflation in the South
Clara Barton
22. Violent disturbances that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War - initially intended to express anger at the draft - the protests degraded into civil disorder direc
Anaconda Plan
inflation in the South
New York Riots
Shiloh
23. The first ironclad warship commissioned by the US Navy.....Most famous for participation in the first-ever battle against another ironclad
chancellorsville tactic
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
USS Monitor
CSS Virginia
24. Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war - financed the war
General Jackson
greenbacks
Peninsular campaign
inflation in the South
25. Commander of Confederate Army. Great leader - Lincoln wanted him as the leader of the Union Army
General Lee
chancellorsville tactic
emancipation proclamation
Chancellorsville
26. Lincoln placed this commander at Vicksburg in command of all Union forces - slowly battered Lee's armies into submission around Richmond in 1864-1865 - and received Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse
Underground Railroad
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
General Grant
blockade runners
27. Compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft.
conscription
Jubal Early
Anaconda Plan
General Lee
28. Provided medical assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals
Jubal Early
United States Sanitary Commission
king cotton
54th Massachusetts Infantry
29. Richmond conflict about high prices of food.He offered no solution -so they turned into an angry mob.President Davis showed up - the mob dispersed
emancipation proclamation
Shiloh
king cotton
bread riots
30. (N) Major General Ulysses S. Grant vs. (S) General Braxton Bragg - 'Gateway to the Lower South -' which became the supply and logistics base for Sherman's 1864 Atlanta Campaign. - Result(s): Union victory
Jefferson Davis
Chattanooga
conscription
greenbacks
31. (N) Burnside vs. (S) Lee - southern victory
Fredericksburg
USS Monitor
Anaconda Plan
Chickamauga
32. The most infamous prison in the south. There was no shelter. There was a huge population - and there were food shortages - overcrowding - and disease that killed about 100 men a day during the summer months.
Wendell Phillips
New York Riots
Andersonville
Clara Barton
33. (N) Major General William S. Rosecrans vs. (S) General Braxton Bragg - Result(s): Confederate victory - CSA won - Largest battle in West - most significant Union defeat in the West
Wendell Phillips
Chickamauga
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Andersonville
34. Lee wanted to attack the North but General McClellan found a copy of Lee's plan wrapped in three cigars
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
CSS Virginia
Chattanooga
First Manassas
35. African American Union regiment that helped capture Fort Wagner in South Carolina
United States Sanitary Commission
bread riots
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
36. Confederate commander who was executed for mistreatment of Union prisoners of war
Shiloh
Captain Henry Wirz
Wendell Phillips
General Lee
37. (N) Major General William S. Rosecrans vs. (S) General Braxton Bragg - Confederates retired - Bragg claimed Union victory - boosted Union morale Result(s): Union victory
USS Monitor
Chancellorsville
Marye's Heights
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
38. (N) Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant vs. (S) Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston - Union won
Peninsular campaign
Chattanooga
20 slaves law
Shiloh
39. Incident in which a Union warship stopped a British steamer and removed two Confederate diplomats
New York Riots
First Manassas
Trent Affair
20 slaves law
40. Expression used to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry - and that North needed South's cotton.
king cotton
Robert Shaw
New York Riots
chancellorsville tactic