becca's civil war section 13
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- Confiscation Acts
- series of laws passed by federal gov. to liberate slaves in seceded states
- Emancipation Proclamation
- order abolishing slavery in Confederate States of America
- 54th MA Volutnteers
- African American soldier in SC
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Lee's 2nd invasion on North; largest battle in western hemisphere
- Gen. Geroge G. Meade
- union Maj. General in Battle of Gettysburg
- Peace Democrats
- against Lincoln administration
- Clement L. Vallandigham
- one of the COpperhead
- New York Draft Riots
- 4 days bloody
- Trent Affair
- nearly brought the US in war w/ Britain
- General William T. Sherman
- had successful campaign in Georgia
- Appomattox Court House
- wilmer Mclean owned this place
- John wilkes Booth
- confederate who killed Lincoln
- Ford's Theater
- place where Lincoln died
- Sic temper tyrannis
- Booth screamed this as he jumped to the stage killing Lincoln
- First Battle of Bull Run (First Manasas)
- first real major conflict of the American Civil War
- . Anaconda Plan
- - The first military strategy offered to President Abraham Lincoln for crushing the rebellion of Southern states
- “King Cotton” Diplomacy
- - bankruptcy of southÂ’s major plantation
- monitor
- best known for battle with Confeder. irodclad Virginia
- merrimac
- constructed by hobson
- gen. robert E. lee
- leader of South confederates
- battle of shiloh
- bloody affair
- Gen. George B. McClellan
- proved to be good organizer (not a good risktaker)
- matthew brady
- claimed for photographing war
- battle of antietam
- robert E. Lee's first invasion of the NOrth
- Mary Boykin Chestnut
- disliked slavery, "dirty Africans",disgusted with how slaves were mistreated
- greenbacks
- treasury department was allowed to print and circulate paper back money
- Jay Cooke
- banking company provided Union Army
- Morrill tariff act of 1861
- rates increased during and after the conflict to help raise revenue to pay for the war
- Pacific railway act
- purpose was safe and speedy transportation for mail, troops, munitions of war
- Morrill Land Grant College Act (1862)
- sale of public land in each state
- homestead act of 1862
- allowed anyone to file for quarter of free land
- writ of habeas cortus
- judicial mandate of prison officials
- Ex parte merriman 1861
- important us supreme court case
- Ex parte milligan (1866)
- allows courts to interpose themselves between citizenry on the one hand
- Clara Barton
- helped wounded soldiers by distributing socks...
- Ulysses S. Grant
- gen. in the North for the Union
- Jefferson Davis
- pres of CSA
- Richmond
- became capital of Confederate states
- naval blockade
- used merrimack and monitor
- vicksburg
- union forces attacked under the command of Grant
- Chancellorsville
- virginia, Lee sent Jackson to attack union flank
- compromise of 1820
- missouri compromise
- Compromise of 1833
- tariff of abominations
- Compromise of 1850
- divided slave and free states
- fugitive slave law
- return runaway slaves
- uncle tom's cabin
- harriet beecher stowe
- ostend manifesto
- selling cuba or having it taken by force by US
- kansas nebraska act
- douglas' plan of making kansas a slave state and nebraska a free state
- bleeding-kansas
- conflict of slaves in (kansas)
- Dred scot vs sanford
- blacks cant be in court or be citizens
- lincoln-douglas debate
- debate over senate
- john brown
- extreme radical who wanted to capture south but stopped by lee
- election of 1861
- abe lincoln selected
- secession
- state separates and become own nation