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APUSH Chapter 15 Vocabulary
APUSH Chapter 15 Vocabulary
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10th Grade
12/06/2010

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George McClellan
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General of Union army that organized the Army of the Potomatic
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Robert E. Lee
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commanding general for confederate army
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Ulysses S. Grant
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final commanding general of Union army assgned by president Lincoln
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Dorothea Dix
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Served as superintendant of nurses during civil war and later created the first mental asylums
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Clara Barton
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Organized the AMerican Red Cross during the civil war that helped nurse wounded soldiers
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William Tecumseh Sherman
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First modern general. served as Union army general that began the idea of total warfare.
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Fort Sumter
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Fort at which the first major battle of the civil war took place. Union army won.
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Battle of Bull Run
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First major land battle of civil war, fought in Manassas, Virginia. Confederates won.
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Union blockade
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Union Navy took command of Atlantic and Gulf Coast and blocked confederate ships from leaving or entering
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King Cotton diplomacy
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Confederates tried to use cotton trade as a diplomatic way to force foreign nations to help the confederacy
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Confiscation Act
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permitted the confiscation of any of property, including slaves, being used to support the Confederate insurrection
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Contraband of war
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status for certain escaped slaves or those who came into the possession of Union forces.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Lincoln's proclamation that set free to all slaves that the Union army won. freed 3.1 million slaves
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National Banking Act
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established a system of national charters for banks that created currency to support the union army during the civil war
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Homestead Act
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allowed union citizens to land outside the 13 colonies after filing an application, improving the land, and filing for deed of title.
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Pacific Railway Act
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Union promoted construction of transcontinential railroads by offering government bonds and the grants of land to railroad companies
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Land Grant College Act
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Bill that allowed for the creation of land grant colleges
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U.S. Sanitary Commission
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Allowed Union women to contribute to war by becoming nurses and sanitary workers
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Draft laws/riots
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violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War
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Siege of Vicksburg
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Union Army defeated the confederates at Vicksburg
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Battle of Gettysburg
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Union Army (Grant) defeated Confederates (Lee) at Gettysburg forcing the confederate army to surrender
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Gettysburg Address
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Speech given by Lincoln at Gettysburg that gave Union Army motivation that eventually led them to defeat tghe Confederates at Gettysburg
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Sherman’s March
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Sherman's Army captured most of Georgia and waged total war on all captured cities
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Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Speech
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Lincoln's inagural speech after the Civil war. Talked about reconstruction and ending slavery.
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Copperheads
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Democrats in the North that opposed the American Civil War
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Suspension of habeas corpus
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Lincoln banned allowing a soldier to hold up the body of whom he murdered to a crowd
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Appomattox Court House
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Courthouse located in virginia that was built post civil war by the Union Army supporters
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