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