S.S Ch.16
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- Fort Sumter
- Federal union fort off the coast of Charelston
- Charelston Harbor
- controlled by fort sumter
- Major Robert Anderson
- Commander of Fort Sumter
- border states
- slave states that bordered northern free states
- DE, MD, MO, KY, and WV
- border states
- Neither side was __________ for the war
- prepared
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- the 1st woman to earn a medical license(MD). she helped convience Lincolin to fomr the U.S Sanitary Commision
- Jefferson Davis
- his straegy was to defend his territory and wear down the others will to fight
- Richmond
- Southern Capital
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
- commander of the confederate at the 1st battle of bull run
- 1st battle of bull run
- it was the key union victory
- the unions navy _______ the south, cutting off southern trade and hurting economy
- blockaded
- ironclad
- a warship heavily armored with iron
- virgina/merriimac
- confederate ironclad
- Gen. Robert E. Lee
- Jefferson Davis put Lee in charge of the Confederate army in VA
- Monitor
- union ironclad/revolving gun turrett
- Ulysess S. Grant
- led the union forces into Tennessee
- Prejudice
- unfavorable feeling, opinion, or attitude FORMED without knowledge or reason
- Emacipation Proclamtion
- Lincolin called for all slaves in Confed. controlled areas to be freed on Jan. 1 1863
- 54th Massachusetts infantry
- the most famous african american unit in the war led by white officers
- Fort wagner
- 54th MA infantry played a big role on the attack on wagner
- discrimination
- an act or unfair treatment towards a group or person based upon race, sex, religon or color
- Casulities
- soliders killed or wounded in war
- abolish/abolition
- to end something completly
- copperheads
- ANTI-WAR DEMOCRATS
- Habeas Curpos
- protection aganist unlawful imprisonment
- men must be _______ into service
- draft/drafted
- Clara Barton
- a volunteer who organized the collection of medicine and supplies for delviery
- American Red Cross
- Barton's work formed the basis Red Cross
- Chancellosville, VA
- close to where Gen. Lee's troops defeated a large union
- Gen. George G. Meade
- the commander of the union troops at the Gettysburg battles
- Little round top
- one key battle area
- Col. Joshua Chamberlain
- led the battles at little round top, cemetery ridge, and seminary ridge
- Ge. George Pickett
- commander of the largest Confed. unit
- Picketts charge was the ____ _____ ____ for the confederacy
- high water mark
- Gettysburg Address
- a speech given by Lincolin to dedicate the new cemetery of the battle field ont of the most famouse speeches in american history
- Gen. WIlliam Tecumseh Sherman
- he carried out a plan to destroy the city of Atlanta. this helped Lincolin win the re-election
- Ge. Will SHerman planned on destroying _______.
- atlanta
- From atlanta, Sherman headed to Savannah, Georgia on his _____ __ ___ ___
- march to the sea
- Total War
- on shermans march to the sea he waged total war, destroying both civilian and militay resources
- Appomattox Courthouse
- Lee and Grant met on Palm Sunday, 4/9/1865 here, there Lee signed the surrender documents in the perlor of Wilbur McLean
- The 1st battle of bull run was fought on the property of ______ ______
- wilbur mclean
- Fords's Theater
- where Lincolin went to see a play, there he was shot
- Our American Cousin
- the play did Lincolin go to see when he was shot
- John Wilkes Booth
- southern actor who shot president lincolin
- Peterson Boarding House
- where lincolin died, across the st. from fords theather
- list 3 union advantages and 2 disadvantages
- advantages *large population *money to fight the war *transportation diadvantes *poor military leaders *hugh areas to conquer
- list 2 confederate advantages and 3 disadvantages
- advantages *skilled military officers * defended homeland disadvantages *few men *few factories *no navy