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CHAPTER 16 TEST REVIEW
Blockade
Union strategy to close ports in the south
Export
Sell to other countries
Border state of Maryland
Close to the Confederate and Union
capital
Northern (Union) War strategies
Southern blockade
Control Mississippi River
Capture Richmond, VA
Called Anaconda Plan
Rebels
Confederate soldiers
Richmond, VA
Confederate Capital and its fall led to
South’s defeat
Yankees
Union soldiers
Southern (Confederate) War strategies
Support from Britain and France
Defensive war
Attack Washington, D.C.
Anaconda Plan
North’s plan to gain control of
Mississippi River and split the south in
two cutting off supplies
Casualties
People killed or wounded
likely to aid the south if the war was
about the fight against slavery
Ulysses. S. Grant
Union general at Shiloh, later commander
of the Union armies
Mary Edwards Walker
First woman army surgeon
Peace Democrats
Copperheads from north who argued for
immediate end to fighting
Rose O’Neal Greenhow
Southern Spy
Bounties
Payments to encourage enlistments used
by the North
Inflation
General increase in prices
Emancipation Proclamation
Decree freeing all enslaved people in
rebel territory Jan. 1, 1863
Roles of women in war
Nurses and spies
Causes of disease
Crowded camps and unsanitary water
supplies
Entrenched
In a protected position
Stonewall Jackson
Confederate general, shot by own forces
at Battle of Chancelorsville
Gettysburg Address
272 words Lincoln spoke to honor
soldiers at Battle of Gettysburg “Four
score and seven years ago…”
Ironclad ship
Merrimack and the Monitor
54th Massachusetts
African American regiment
Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist orator convinced Lincoln
that European countries would be less
Battle of Gettysburg
July 4, 1863, Union victory
Battle of Shiloh
Union victory, named after a small
church
March to the Sea
Trail of destruction led by General
Sherman example of total war
David Farragut
Union Navy hero who captured New
Orleans
13th Amendment
Law Freed enslaved Americans
Amnesty Act
Pardoned most former Confederates and
nearly all white southerners could vote
and hold office again
Siege of Vicksburg
Union victory, lasted 47 days
Reconstruction
Era after the Civil War focused on how to
bring the south back into the Union and
status of African Americans in society
Greenbacks
Northern money
Appomattox Court House
Site of Robert E. Lee’s surrender for the
South
Jefferson Davis
Confederate president
Picket’s Charge
Took place in the battle of Gettysburg
with ¾ dying
Habeas corpus
Prisoner’s right to a trial
General Beauregard
Confederate commander who lost Battle
of Shiloh
Winfield Scott
Mexican War hero with North’s war plan
Battle of Antietam
Bloodiest day in the Civil War