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