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Civil War Vocab
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1st official battle of the Civil War
Fought over important ft. in SC
No casualties
Ft. Sumter
CSA refers to the Confederate States of
America, the name the south gave their
new country when they seceded from the
USA.
 Jefferson Davis was elected president of
the new Confederate States of America.
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CSA/ Jefferson DAvis
Union’s war strategy
Winfield Scott
Consists of blockade of South and control
of Miss. Rvr.
 Compared to the snake that slowly
strangles its prey to death.
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Anaconda Plan
States that allowed slavery, but did not
secede from the Union.
 Deleware, Kentucky, Missouri, and
Maryland
 Lincoln could not afford to lose these
states to the Confederacy.
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Border States
Commander of the Army of Northern
Virginia.
 Formerly one of the best senior officers in
the US army.
 Offered command of the US army, but
declined, feeling loyalty to his home state
of Virginia.
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Robert E. Lee
1st bloodshed of the Civil War
 Occurred at Manassas Junction in VA, only
25 miles South of Washington DC
 With the help of “Stonewall” Jackson’s
reinforcements, the Union suffered a
defeat.
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1st Bull Run/ Manassas
Union General
 His successes in the West led Lincoln to
eventually name Grant commander of the
Union army in 1864.
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Ulysses S. Grant
Gave Lincoln the victory he needed for
Emancipation Proclamation.
 Bloodiest single day of the Civil War.
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Antietam
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A decree freeing all enslaved persons in
states still in rebellion after January 1,
1863
Emancipation Proclamation
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1863 siege that gave the Union control of
the Mississippi river.
Vicksburg
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Cutting off an opponent’s food and
supplies and constantly bombarding it
until the enemy gives up.
Siege
Turning point of the war in the East.
 3-day battle/ Gettysburg, PA
 Union victory…Lee loses more than 1/3 of
his forces and will never be able to regain the strength he had before the
battle.
 Bloodiest battle of the Civil War
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Gettysburg
Speech given by President Lincoln at the
dedication of a battlefield cemetery.
Becomes one of the best-known orations
in American History.
 Part II (on your own). See page 129.
 Part III (on your own).
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Gettysburg Address
Union troops march east across GA, led
by General Sherman.
 Purpose: to make Southern civilians
understand the horrors of war.
 Cuts a path of destruction through GA (at
times 60 miles wide), butning corps,
ransaking houses and killing livestock.
 Example of TOTAL WAR!!
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Sherman’s March (to the sea)
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Type of war in which one side utilizes all
its resources to completely destroy its
opponent.
Total War
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The most prominent Civil War nurse.
Clara Barton
Village 3 miles east of Appomattox, VA
 Site of Lee’s surrender to Grant on April 9,
1865
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Appomattox Courthouse
Just after 10pm on April 14, 1865 Lincoln
is shot in the back of the head by John
Wilkes Booth. He dies the next morning.
 This occurs at a play at Ford’s Theater.
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Lincoln’s Assassination
Constitutional amendment banning
slavery in the United States.
 Part II (on your own). See page 135
 Part III (on your own).
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13th Amendment