APUSH ch. 14 vocab

Anaconda Plan

Union war plan by Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south

Appomattox CourtHouse, Virginia

Site of the surrender of Confederate general Robert E. Lee to Union general Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, marking the end of the Civil War.

Battle of Antietam

Civil War battle in which the North suceedeed in halting Lee's Confederate forces in Maryland. Was the bloodiest battle of the war resulting in 25,000 casualties

Battles of Bull Run

first battle of Civ. War, either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862), 1st major battle, proved war was going to be long and costly

Battle of Monitor and the Merrimack

The most important naval battle of the Civil War, it was fought in March 1862 and was the first meeting of two ironclad warships.

Copperheads

A group of northern Democrats who opposed abolition and sympathized with the South during the Civil War

Jefferson Davis

President of the Confederate States of America

Emancipation Proclamation

Proclamation issued by Lincoln, freeing all slaves in areas still at war with the Union.

Ex Parte Milligan

1866 - Supreme Court ruled that military trials of civilians were illegal unless the civil courts are inoperative or the region is under marshall law.

Gettysburg Address

(1863) a speech given by Abraham Lincoln after the Battle of Gettysburg, in which he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and renewed his commitment to winning the Civil War; supported the ideals of self-government and human rights

Ulysses S. Grant

an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States (1869-1877). He achieved international fame as the leading Union general in the American Civil War.

Homestead Act, 1862

1862 - Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.

Robert E. Lee

Confederate general who had opposed secession but did not believe the Union should be held together by force

Radical Republicans

After the Civil War, a group that believed the South should be harshly punished and thought that Lincoln was sometimes too compassionate towards the South.

Sherman's March

(1864-1865) Union General William Tecmseh Sherman's destructive March through Georgia. An early instance of "Total war", puposely targeting infrastucture and civialian property to diminish moral and undercut the confederate war effort.

Transcontinental Railroad

Railroad connecting the west and east coasts of the continental US