Civil War Test Flashcards

Harriet Tubman

An individual who led troops in combat and worked as a sky for the union.

Location of the Armies

Both armies spent the majority of their time in the South.

Southern Civilizations (Last Year of War)

Experienced total devastation where homes were destroyed, crops were burned, food was taken, and animals were killed.

Clara Barton

A union nurse who risked her life to save union soldiers and invented life saving techniques during the war.

Frederick Douglass

An effective public speaker on slavery because he was once an ex slave, which gave him credibility.

Willie Lincoln

The son of Abraham Lincoln who died of typhoid fever.

Nursing in the Civil War

Doctors were hesitant to allow women in this role because they believed it was inappropriate for women to treat men.

Andersonville Prison

A deadly location characterized by starvation, disease, heat, and a water source that also served as a sewer.

Elmira Prison

A deadly prison where the environment was extremely cold and prisoners froze.

Copperheads

The name Lincoln gave to Northern Democrats who spoke out against the war, comparing them to deadly snakes.

Dissenters in the North

Northern democrats who spoke out against the war and were put in a prison without a trial by Lincoln.

Southern Draft Exemption

Those who had two or more slaves could escape being drafted.

Northern Draft Exemption

Individuals could escape being drafted if they paid a fee of $300$.

Rich man's war and a poor man's fight

A phrase used by poor people on both sides to describe the war after the draft began.

Fort Sumter

The location where the first shots of the war occurred.

Fifty fourth Massachusetts

A Union army unit formed from ex-slaves and freedmen that was highly decorated for bravery.

General Ambrose Burnside

The Union general who started a fashion trend called the Burnside haircut after Antonym.

General William Sherman

A general who waged total war against southern civilians as he burned his way through southern towns.

John Wilkes Booth

The individual who assassinated Lincoln in Ford's Theater.

Robert e Lee

The person described as the greatest southern general during the world.

Thirteenth amendment

The amendment that banned slavery except for imprisons.

Fourteenth amendment

The amendment that gave the right for ex-slaves to earn citizenship.

Fifteenth amendment

The amendment that gave the right for every man, black or white, who is over the age of $21$ to have voting rights.

10% plan

Lincoln's plan where after $10\%$ of the Southern states swore not to leave the union again, they could apply for resubmission back to the union.

Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan (Rejection)

This plan was not used for the Reconstruction of the South because Lincoln was assassinated and his plan was vetoed.

Freedman's barrow

A congressional effort to provide poor people and ex-slaves with jobs, education, housing, food, and lands.

Border states

States that stayed in the Union during the war and were allowed to keep slavery.

Southern motivation for war

The reason most southerners went to war, which was for their families, towns, and states.

Northern motivation for war

The reason most northerners went to war, which was to keep the Union together.

Emancipation Proclamation

A specific order that freed slaves in only the rebel states.

Result of the Emancipation Proclamation

$500,000$ slaves ran, and $200,000$ of those slaves joined the Union Army.

Strategic effect of Emancipation Proclamation

It weakened the South by ending food and weapon production.

Iron clans

The first modern battleships that made wooden ships obsolete.

Miniball bullet

The advance in technology that made the Civil War way more deadlier than previous American wars.

Southern city riots

Events occurring in the last $2$ years of the war where women rioted over a lack of food.

Gettysburg battle

The battle considered to be the turning point of the war.

Joshua L. Chamberlain

The colonial who saved the Union on the second day of Gettysburg by ordering a bayonet charge in the Little Round Top battle.

Pickett's charge

The event on the third day of Gettysburg said to be the price for the South to pay under commander Robert E. Lee.

George Payette

The general who made the most horrific change of the war.

Gettysburg Address

A famous speech by Lincoln lasting less than $2$ minutes that called for expanding freedoms, ending slavery, and protecting representative governments.

Ulysses S. Grant

The man who became the supreme commander of the Union Army and finally defeated Robert E. Lee.

Anaconda Plan

The Union plan for victory in the war which consisted of $3$ steps.