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| Democrats who opposed war |
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| Wearing down of one side through exhaustion of soliders and resources |
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| Arrest of Mason and Slidell |
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| Small fast vessels the south used to smuggle goods past the blockade |
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| Lincoln's ability to call state militias |
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| Series of attacks by Lee on Mclellan |
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| Emancipation Proclomation |
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| Decree freeing all enslaved persons |
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| Bloodiest one day battle in American History |
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| First North African American regiments |
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| Patent Officer becomes battle field nurse |
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| Emancipation Proclamation |
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| Proposition that all men were created equal |
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| First U.S. Female Physcisian |
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| Union General began a campaign to seize control of two rivers |
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| Searching or raiding for food |
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| Cut off food supply and bombard |
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| General Hooker's replacement |
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| Stratedgic crossroads Northeast of Richmond |
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| Was supposed to stage a calvary raid north and west of richmond |
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| Sherman's troops cut a path of destruction to Georgia |
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| Constitutional ban of slavery |
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| The second battle of bull run left the confederate troops only 20 miles from washington DC |
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| The Emancipation Proclamation by its very existence transformed the conflict over perserving the Union into a war of liberation |
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| The North used blockade runners |
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| Thomas Stone wall Jackson inspired confederate troops at the first battle of bull run and went on to become one of the greatest confederate commanders of all time |
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| The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest one-day battle in the Civil War and in American History |
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| The Battle of Gettysburg proved to be the turning point of the war |
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| The city of Vicksburg was located on the east bank of the Missouri River |
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| Grant ordered 1,700 troops on a calvary raid through Kentucky in order to distract the confederates defending Vicksburg |
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| Lincoln rewarded Grant for his victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg by promoting him to general |
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| Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg broke the Union line and ensured victory for confederate troops |
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| Jefferson Davis's Vice President was Alexander _____ |
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| Jefferson Davis's stratedgy was to wage a ________ war of attrition |
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| Although the South had many experienced officers to lead its troops in battle, the North had several ________ advantages |
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| Habeas Corpus refers to a person's right not to be imprisoned unless charged with a _________ and given a trial |
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| Kate __________ braved the horrors of the battlefield to nurse the wounded |
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| The North experienced an _______ boom because of war |
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| The Civil was produced a huge number of casualties due them knowing little knowledge of how to treat infections and __________ |
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| The most infamous prison in the South was located in _____________ in southwest Georgia. |
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| ____________ is a hard biscuit |
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| The Capital of South Carolina is _________ |
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| Who killed Abraham Lincoln? |
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| Lincoln interpretted his re-election in 1864 as a __________ |
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| After the battle in the wilderness, the Union and Confederate armies battled for 11 days first in terrible heat and then in pouring rain near _______ |
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| To oppose Lincoln in the 1864 election the Democrats nominated General George _________ |
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| What was Winfield Scott's stratedgy for defeating the south? |
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| What did Congress pass to allow the government to issue paper money? |
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| Who in the Civil War had a monopoly in producing cannons? |
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| Forcing people into military service? |
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| The rapid generation of money that causes it to decrease in value is called? |
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| The first Union defeat of the Civil War is? |
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| The Second Battle of Bull Run |
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| What general took 30 days to capture Yorktown? |
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| 2 Major Harbors around the Atlantic Coast not sealed off by the Union navy by the spring of 1862? |
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| Grant's troops camped about 20 miles north of Cornith, Mississippi, near a small church named? |
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| New Orleans was in the Union's hands thanks to a daring decision made by who? |
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| The US and the confederacy avoided holding large numbers of prisoners by agreeing to _______ |
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| Inspiration for American women nursing in army hospitals? |
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| Frederick Douglas believed that African Americans joining the military would help overcome what? |
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| Women filled labor shortages in injuries such as clothing factories and ______? |
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| Lee's troops attacked Hooker's forces in the wilderness of _______. |
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| During the Civil War Chattanooga Tenesee acted as a vital ________. |
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| Who led raids to distract Confederate troops to help Grant to land his troops in Vicksburg? |
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| The victory at Chatanooga had secured eastern Tennessee and cleared way for the invasion of what city? |
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| General Sherman marched his army from Chattanooga toward? |
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| North's Victory in the Civil War also saved the Union and strengthened the power of the federal government over the what? |
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| What harbor cost the Union 7,000 lives and the Confederates 1,500 lives? |
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| Sherman's troops set fires to destroy structures and the fires burned down a third of _______? |
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| General Lee surrendered to General Grant at the ________. |
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