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DSST Civil War Vocab
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1. Blockade that would not allow supplies of any sort into the Confederacy; control the Mississippi and Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico
Trent Affair
20 slaves law
Chickamauga
Anaconda Plan
2. (N) Burnside vs. (S) Lee - southern victory
Jubal Early
Clara Barton
United States Sanitary Commission
Fredericksburg
3. Denounced the president for being a first rate second rate man for delaying on the emacipation
Clara Barton
General Jackson
Wendell Phillips
Anaconda Plan
4. Failed attempt by Union troops to take a sea route into the Confederate capital of Richmond.
bread riots
Chancellorsville
conscription
Peninsular campaign
5. President of the Southern Confederate States after their succession from the Union - struggled to form a solid government
Anaconda Plan
Fredericksburg
Jefferson Davis
conscription
6. Incident in which a Union warship stopped a British steamer and removed two Confederate diplomats
Robert Shaw
Clara Barton
Trent Affair
Fredericksburg
7. 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.
United States Sanitary Commission
General Jackson
54th Massachusetts Infantry
USS Monitor
8. (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
Second Manassas
conscription
chancellorsville tactic
Chattanooga
9. (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
CSS Virginia
General Jackson
Peninsular campaign
Chickamauga
10. In Virginia where Lee daringly divided his numerically inferior army and sent Stonewall Jackson to attack the Union flank.
chancellorsville tactic
United States Sanitary Commission
greenbacks
Andersonville
11. (N) Pope vs. (S) Lee/Jackson - This was the decisive battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign. Result(s): Confederate victory
Chattanooga
Fredericksburg
New York Riots
Second Manassas
12. (N) Major General William S. Rosecrans vs. (S) General Braxton Bragg - Confederates retired - Bragg claimed Union victory - boosted Union morale Result(s): Union victory
Clara Barton
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
Chattanooga
Anaconda Plan
13. Commander of Confederate Army. Great leader - Lincoln wanted him as the leader of the Union Army
54th Massachusetts Infantry
20 slaves law
General Lee
CSS Virginia
14. [aka USS Merrimack] yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into an ironclad - sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads.
Chancellorsville
Antietam
CSS Virginia
Marye's Heights
15. Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An 'angel' in the Civil War - treated the wounded in the field.
Chattanooga
New York Riots
Clara Barton
Chancellorsville
16. 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.
General Grant
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
Andersonville
blockade runners
17. White leading commander of the first black regiment - 54th Massachusetts
Wendell Phillips
Robert Shaw
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
Shiloh
18. The first ironclad warship commissioned by the US Navy.....Most famous for participation in the first-ever battle against another ironclad
USS Monitor
Clara Barton
bread riots
greenbacks
19. 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.
greenbacks
emancipation proclamation
Chancellorsville
USS Monitor
20. 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
emancipation proclamation
General Grant
First Manassas
Jubal Early
21. Marched from Atlanta to the Sea destroying everything; Total War
General Sherman
inflation in the South
Robert Shaw
Andersonville
22. Provided medical assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals
United States Sanitary Commission
Chickamauga
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
20 slaves law
23. Excused slaveholders owning twenty or more slaves from being drafted for service
inflation in the South
20 slaves law
Robert Shaw
Shiloh
24. Union forces nearly broke the Confederate lines - but the Union Army made 14 unsuccessful charges against the stone wall at ________ ____________.
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25. (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
Chancellorsville
United States Sanitary Commission
conscription
Captain Henry Wirz
26. Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war - financed the war
Second Manassas
General Lee
Marye's Heights
greenbacks
27. Small - fast ships that delivered supplies to the Confederacy.
emancipation proclamation
CSS Virginia
Fredericksburg
blockade runners
28. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North
General Grant
General Lee
United States Sanitary Commission
Underground Railroad
29. Lee wanted to attack the North but General McClellan found a copy of Lee's plan wrapped in three cigars
blockade runners
Captain Henry Wirz
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
General Jackson
30. Printing paper money - but prices on necessities like food and such skyrocketed and the people rioted.
Chattanooga
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
inflation in the South
31. (N) McDowell vs. (S) Beauregard/ Jackson - CSA won - 1st Battle
Antietam
Marye's Heights
chancellorsville tactic
First Manassas
32. Confederate commander who was executed for mistreatment of Union prisoners of war
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
Captain Henry Wirz
Marye's Heights
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
33. (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
General Sherman
Marye's Heights
Antietam
blockade runners
34. (N) Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant vs. (S) Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston - Union won
Chattanooga
emancipation proclamation
Shiloh
king cotton
35. Expression used to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry - and that North needed South's cotton.
king cotton
Clara Barton
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
Andersonville
36. 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
emancipation proclamation
chancellorsville tactic
conscription
Jubal Early
37. Compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft.
Andersonville
Jubal Early
Second Manassas (Bull Run) irony
conscription
38. 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
General Lee
Underground Railroad
Captain Henry Wirz
New York Riots
39. 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
First Manassas
General Sherman
USS Monitor
bread riots
40. African American Union regiment that helped capture Fort Wagner in South Carolina
Robert Shaw
Jubal Early
54th Massachusetts Infantry
Andersonville