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