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