HISTORY flashcards - civil war and reconstruction
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- president of the confederacy
- Jefferson Davis
- Led the march to the sea
- Sherman
- Most capable general of the Northern Army
- Grant
- Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men at this battle
- chancellorsville
- Northerners who went into the south for financial gain
- carpet baggers
- would stand trial for impeachment
- Andrew Johnsen
- the state known as the "cradle of the confederacy"
- south carolina
- lincoln gave the south 100 days to surrender or he would free all slaves in the states that were in rebellion
- gettysburg address
- the first state to secede
- Georgia
- lincoln's message in his first innagural address
- we can't be seperated
- this was the first naval engagement between ironclads
- Hampton roads
- the president would suspend this and would later be rebuked for abusing his power
- habeas corpus
- caused riots in the north
- drafting
- this made it legal for black men to vote
- 15th amendment
- famous advance that defeated the south at gettysburg
- pickett's charge
- the first battle of the civil war
- the first bull run
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1) good command
2) defensive war
3) meaningful war - south's advantages
- the largest battle ever fought on american soil
- antietam
- general Lee surrendered his army here to end the civil war
- appomattox
- four slave states that did not secede
- Arkansas, tennesee, north carolina, virginia