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