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