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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






2. (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






3. Failed attempt by Union troops to take a sea route into the Confederate capital of Richmond.






4. Lee wanted to attack the North but General McClellan found a copy of Lee's plan wrapped in three cigars






5. The first ironclad warship commissioned by the US Navy.....Most famous for participation in the first-ever battle against another ironclad






6. In Virginia where Lee daringly divided his numerically inferior army and sent Stonewall Jackson to attack the Union flank.






7. [aka USS Merrimack] yard workers salvaged the USS Merrimack and converted her into an ironclad - sank two Union warships in Hampton Roads.






8. (N) Pope vs. (S) Lee/Jackson - This was the decisive battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign. Result(s): Confederate victory






9. 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.






10. A system that helped enslaved African Americans follow a network of escape routes out of the South to freedom in the North






11. President of the Southern Confederate States after their succession from the Union - struggled to form a solid government






12. Small - fast ships that delivered supplies to the Confederacy.






13. (N) Major General William S. Rosecrans vs. (S) General Braxton Bragg - Confederates retired - Bragg claimed Union victory - boosted Union morale Result(s): Union victory






14. Compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft.






15. 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.






16. Marched from Atlanta to the Sea destroying everything; Total War






17. (N) McDowell vs. (S) Beauregard/ Jackson - CSA won - 1st Battle






18. Expression used to indicate economic dominance of Southern cotton industry - and that North needed South's cotton.






19. Printing paper money - but prices on necessities like food and such skyrocketed and the people rioted.






20. Union forces nearly broke the Confederate lines - but the Union Army made 14 unsuccessful charges against the stone wall at ________ ____________.


21. 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






22. White leading commander of the first black regiment - 54th Massachusetts






23. African American Union regiment that helped capture Fort Wagner in South Carolina






24. Denounced the president for being a first rate second rate man for delaying on the emacipation






25. Excused slaveholders owning twenty or more slaves from being drafted for service






26. Incident in which a Union warship stopped a British steamer and removed two Confederate diplomats






27. 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






28. (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






29. Confederate commander who was executed for mistreatment of Union prisoners of war






30. 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






31. Provided medical assistance and supplies to army camps and hospitals






32. (N) Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant vs. (S) Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston - Union won






33. Union paper money not backed by gold or silver. Value would fluctuate depending on status of the war - financed the war






34. (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






35. Commander of Confederate Army. Great leader - Lincoln wanted him as the leader of the Union Army






36. (N) Burnside vs. (S) Lee - southern victory






37. 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.






38. (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






39. 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






40. Launched the American Red Cross in 1881. An 'angel' in the Civil War - treated the wounded in the field.