Ch. 18 Flashcards

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Ch. 18 Flashcards
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VOCABULARY (define)
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1. Emancipation Proclamation
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2. inflation
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3. bounty
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4. hardtack
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5. Copperheads
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6. Johnny Reb
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7. Billy Yank/Blue Belly
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8. habeas corpus
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9. civilians
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10. bonds
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11. total War
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12. tax-in-kind
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13. profiteers
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14.    Seeing the Elephant
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PEOPLE (name the person that fits the
description)
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1. President of the Union during the war
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2. President of the Confederacy during the war
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3. Confederate General who was accidentally shot
by his own men at Chancellorsville
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4. Commander of the Union army in the West and
later in the East
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5. Commander of the Confederate army
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6. Organized supplies for Union soldiers during
the war, later founded the American Red Cross
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7. Union general who led destructive march
through Georgia
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8. Union general who led destructive march
through Virginia
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9. Union general at 7 Days Battle and Antietam
replaced because he was too cautious Democratic
candidate for president in 1864
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10. Union general at Chancellorsville
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11. Union general at Gettysburg
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12. Superintendent of Nurses for the Union Army
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13. Black female who spied for the Union and
acted as a guide for the Union army
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14. DC socialite who spied for the South sent
coded messages to the Confederates spent the
last year of the war in prison
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15. Confederate general who led a charge at
Gettysburg that cost him 75 of his 15,000 troops
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16. Led Union troops to defeat and retreat at
the first battle of the Civil War.
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17. Designed a new type of cone-shaped bullet
that became popular during the Civil War.
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18. Disguised herself as a man in order to serve
in the Union army sometimes went behind enemy
lines disguised as a black slave named Cuff in
order to spy on the Confederates.
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19. Disguised herself as a man and organized her
own battalion of Confederate soldiers.
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20. Famous authoress who served as a volunteer
nurse in a Washington, DC hospital.
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21. Former slave and moving speaker who served
in Union hospitals and army camps.
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22. Called Crazy Betsey because she freed all
her slaves, she sent messages in empty eggshells
from Richmond to the Union army
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PLACES (name the place or battle that fits the
description)
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1. First major battle of the Civil War
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2. The Union won the bloodiest one-day battle
that took place in Maryland in Sept. 1862
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3. The capital of the Union during the Civil War
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4. The capital of the Confederacy--fell and
burned on April 3, 1865
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5. This bloody battle in Tennessee cost Grant
13,000 men and almost got him fired gave Grant
control of the UPPER Mississippi River
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6. This battle marked a turning point in the
Civil War 50,000 casualties made it the
bloodiest battle in North American history.
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7. Rural village in Virginia where Lee
Surrendered to Grant
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8. The surrender of this city meant the Union
finally had control of the entire Mississippi
River and cleared another route for invasion of
the South
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9. Name the border states that stayed in the
Union
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10. This state split in two over whether or not
to stay in the Union
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11. Union lost 12,000 men at this Virginia
battle Gen. Burnside is replaced by Gen. Hooker
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12. First action of the Civil War took place at
this fort in Charleston, SC
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13. General Grant lost 60,000 men during these
three battles in an effort to reach Richmond.
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14. The fall of this Virginia city on April 2,
1865 caused Lee to retreat to Richmond and
Appomattox
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DATES Fill in the missing numbers
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1. This date marked the beginning of the Civil
War April ___, 186___
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2. This date marked the surrender of Lee and the
end of the Civil War April ___, 186___
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3. This date marked a turning point in the civil
war July ___, 186___
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MAP QUESTIONS
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1. Which battle took place in Pennsylvania?
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2. Which battle took place in Maryland?
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3. Which battle took place two miles outside of
Washington, DC in VA?
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4. Which city was taken by the Union navy at the
mouth of the Mississippi?
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5. Which city in central Georgia was taken and
burned by Gen. Sherman?
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OTHER THINGS TO KNOW AND STUDY
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Name advantages of the North
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Name advantages of the South
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Describe the Unions strategy
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Describe the Souths strategy
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Approximately how many American men died in the
Civil War?
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Name of the iron clad Union ship that fought the
Merrimack
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Confederate troops could have taken Washington DC
after they won at Bull Run, but instead they
stopped to
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Study your study guide, your battle chart, the
timeline chart (for sequence questions) and your
battle map.